In April 2019, under the leadership of Mr. Zhang, the first tea tour began. Distinguished from the usual tour of the mountains and driving tour, this tea tour seems particularly hard, eat and live with the local tea farmers a hair the same, a few bungalows on the tea mountain, 4-5 people crowded a bed, because the tea is to stay up all night, so do not see the time to sleep. Tea tour a **** three days, the arrangement is as follows?
Day1? Tea plantation tea & Taiping Monkey Kui tea factory visit
After the train reached the Huangshan station, and then take the car sat for nearly two hours to reach the Huangshan Taiping Lake Xiaokeng village. A little rest immediately on the mountain picking tea green - standard - Huangshan Mao Feng bud two leaves.
Picking tea by hand is very hard, the quantity is relatively low, in order to ensure the quality of the later production, the technique should be standardized and gentle. If you want to ensure the yield and efficiency, you must work with both hands.
After dinner, we went to visit the tea factory where Taiping Houkui is made. The shape of Taiping Monkey Kui tea is quite special, and it needs to be pinched by hand, which is laborious and time-consuming, but the taste is excellent, with strong aroma and quick sweetness.
The process of making tea is shown in the picture
Day 2 Picking Wild Tea & Making Taiping Monkey Kui & Making Black Tea
We often hear about the wild tea on the market, and it seems that the price can be raised a lot by adding the word "wild" to the word "wild". After this personally on the mountain picking wild tea tea, understand that the price is really expensive reason Higher than the average price of 20% -30% can be understood, but also recognize the fact that the market is full of wild tea, can be called a real wild tea less and less. Wild tea tree, the form of natural, high and low thickness of different, dense forests, insufficient light and the surrounding plants **** raw, no artificial fertilizer intervention. Leaves thicker, take the fresh leaves to chew, high aroma, sweet. Because it is a natural ecological mountain, there can be no walking trails for people, all rely on their own climbing up, a careless will be tripped by shrubs and branches. Up and down the mountain 3-4 hours to pick full half a catty of tea green is not easy. Because the amount of wild tea picked with tea friends even less than half a kilogram of green, late in Mr. Zhang's advice tea green should be made of white tea.
In the afternoon we did Taiping Monkey Kui, energetic tea enthusiasts began to actively prepare to do black tea, black tea is to stay up all night to do, many people in order to do black tea sleepless nights.
Day3 Making White Tea
The day before, the amount of wild tea green was too small, drying for more than 12 hours, drying on the production of white tea - a simple version of white tea was produced. The amount was so small that my tea friends and I didn't want to drink it, almost like taking a box to offer it.
After three days of tea making, I have a deeper understanding of tea and how each process affects the final product. Do once tea began to cherish the hard-won tea.