Evening Sky is made from the "Wild Purple” varietal, also known as Camellia sinensis var. Assamica Dehongensis. Some of the trees are old-growth, ranging in the hundreds of years old.  When we say that a tea is a “purple" tea, we are referring to a varietal of tea that has a very unique mutation, where its buds are purple to maroon in color. In most varieties of purple tea, the purple buds slowly turn green as they open into mature leaves, changing from inside to out. This lends the tree a beautiful glow and in turn creates a tea that has a deep potency and a wonderfully arising Qi. 

This very rare wild, purple-budded dian hong tea comes from the Mangshi Township in the Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan, a province in southwest China.