Tieguanyin is the best to drink in the fall season.

Iron Goddess of Mercy is the best for drinking in the fall, although Tieguanyin is a neutral tea suitable for all year round. But in the fall to drink Tieguanyin will be very suitable, you can brew some strong Tieguanyin to drink. And in the fall time harvested Tieguanyin is the best quality, because of the relationship between the cool weather in the fall, this time the taste of Tieguanyin is the most authentic and pure.

Tieguanyin production process

1, picking

Tieguanyin, as well as other oolong teas, are not as concerned about the picking of young buds as green tea, the tea used is usually as large as the leaves of a tree.

2, sunshine green

The time of sunshine green is very delicate, usually will be chosen in the afternoon after 3 o'clock when the sunlight becomes soft sunshine green, the time is 15~30 minutes.

3, drying

Drying is a complementary process to sun-drying, which is carried out in a cool and ventilated room, and needs to be turned every half hour to one hour.

4, shaking

Shaking is the key to the production of Tieguanyin, the tea leaves rubbing against each other to reach the semi-fermented state, shaking the tea leaves will be returned to the green, and then after the drying of the tea leaves need to be shaken again, this process should be repeated 3 to 5 times.

5, stir-frying

Traditional stir-frying needs to be completed by hand, in order to keep track of the temperature changes, the frying pan temperature is generally set at 250 ℃ ~ 280 ℃.

6, wrapping and kneading

Wrapping and kneading is one of the unique production processes of oolong tea, wrapping up the tea leaves with a tea towel, and through kneading and pressurization, the tea leaves are tightly kneaded to form a special strip, shaped like an oolong.

7, baking

The purpose of baking is to reduce the water content of the tea leaves to less than 6%, often alternating with kneading, that is, the initial baking, kneading, kneading, double baking, double kneading, re-baking, etc., and then finally processed into the "gross tea".

8, picking bumps

"Mao tea" by picking bumps, screening can be packaged for sale, generally using vacuum packaging, buy home in a cool place to save, can also be placed in the refrigerator.