Guide to yellow tea

How much information do you know yellow tea? Yellow Tea is a rare and expensive variety of Green Tea: processing methods vary and some are closely guarded secrets, but most Yellow Teas are made by covering lightly withered Green Teas with mats to allow a small amount of oxidation to occur. This has the effect of giving a yellow tinge to the leaves and a slightly sweeter, more rounded taste to the liquor.

It usually implies a special tea processed similarly to green tea, but with a slower drying phase, where the damp tea leaves are allowed to sit and yellow. The tea generally has a very yellow-green appearance and a smell different from both white tea and green tea. The smell is sometimes mistaken for black if the tea is cured with other herbs, but similarities in tastes can still be drawn between yellow, green and white teas.

The processing methods of yellow tea are similar to green tea; its production processed as follows, fresh leaves fixing rolling-boring yellow drying. Yellow Tea and leaf tea has Yacha points, have different requirements on the new shoot bud: In addition to requiring a large Yellow Tea leaf buds shoot 4, 5 of the rest of the Yellow Tea has a requirement on the shoots, “delicate, fresh, Yun Qi, pure”in common.

Yellow Tea, fixing, rolling, drying processes are similar with green tea production method, the most important processes is the boring yellow, Yellow Tea, which is characterized by the formation of the key, the main approach to fixing and rolling well after the tea wrapped in paper, or after the wet cloth cover of the accumulation time to several minutes or several hours of varied, to promote the role of tea billet in the water under the heat of non-enzymatic auto-oxidation, the formation of the yellow.