What machines can not replace: hand sorting tea. Here, sorting through Sheng Cha, and Shu Cha on the right. Ensuring that every piece of leaf that goes into a compressed Bing is the right quality- Machines can never replace the discerning hand eye sorting such brittle large leaves. For many consumers, buying Pu-Erh compressed cakes blind means not only not knowing what the leaf quality inside the middle of the cakes are, or whether it is the right fermentation, but that if the hand sorting wasn’t done, miscellaneous items aside from reject leaves will certainly be included. Even good quality Bingcha will include several different grades, the prettier leaves on the outside, nevermind unreliable factories. Pu-Erh is the Wild Wild South of tea.
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