After our Cuiluan tea sold out last year, some tea lovers tried to find authentic Cuiluan tea at various brick-and-mortar tea shops. After coming up empty-handed at several places, they wondered if Cuiluan was just some tiny, obscure tea zone. Let me clear that up: Cuiluan is not only far from small, but it is actually the single largest tea-producing area on the Lishan back mountain. The reason you rarely see “Cuiluan Tea” labeled on the market isn’t because of poor quality, but because most of it gets packaged under more prestigious, higher-value regional names like Dayuling or Lishan, which allows sellers to pocket an extra one to two thousand dollars per catty. While that practice is a bit shady, it proves that top-tier Cuiluan tea genuinely possesses the strength to punch well above its weight class.