100 MONKEYS - White loose leaf tea. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: China. GRADE: handmade white loose leaf. MANUFACTURE TYPE: handmade. CUP CHARACTERISTICS: Excellent new season flavor. The strength of the cup belies its white tea nature. INGREDIENTS: Mao Feng tea. TEA INFORMATION: 100 Monkeys, a rare White Mao Feng loose leaf tea from Hunan is exceptional. This name stems from a centuries old tale that centers on an old tea grower and his wife who worked a small plot of land high in the hills. So the story goes, the couple was being terrorised by a renegade band of monkeys. They tried everything to stop the monkeys, from covering the crop with netting, to buying two large dogs to scare the group away. In desperation the husband decided to ask an ancient shaman who lived in a remote cave over the mountains. The Shaman gave the man a recipe for a new type of tea written on a parchment. The shaman explained that since the monkeys were looking for tea if the man gave them 100lbs of this special recipe they would not return. The man left the 100lbs of tea in a wooden chest near their tea patch. The next morning the chest was empty and the monkeys never returned.