Flower tea, also known as fragrant pieces, smoked flower tea, and flower tea, is a unique tea category in China. It is made of finely processed tea with tea with fragrant flowers, which not only has the pure taste of tea, but also has the rich and fragrant aroma of flowers, floral tea flavor, unique charm.
There are many types of flower tea, according to the different types of flowers used, can be divided into jasmine tea, white orchid tea, pearl orchid tea, tortoiseshell flower tea, rose tea, gardenia tea, grapefruit flower, osmanthus flower tea, orchid flower tea, la plum tea, lotus flower tea and so on. Among them, jasmine tea is the most representative, which is the main tea produced and exported by flower tea.
/ Jasmine Tea/
Jasmine tea is mainly produced in Fuzhou, Ningde, Nanping, Guangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yuanjiang, Yunnan, Changsha, Chongqing, Jiangsu Suzhou, Zhejiang Jinhua, Anhui Huangshan and other places.
Jasmine tea is divided into ordinary jasmine tea, special jasmine tea and modeling process flower tea according to the different varieties of tea blank grade.
Grade type jasmine tea
Grade jasmine tea refers to the use of grade green tea as raw materials, the grade type tea blank and jasmine flowers are spliced together, the shape is a strip, can be divided into special grade, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, broken tea, slice tea and so on. Containing the amount of buds, the grade is high, and the freshness and purity of the endoplasmic fragrance vary depending on the level.
Grade jasmine tea has a tightly knotted shape, uniform and clean, the color is yellow-green and shiny, requiring the buds to be exposed and fat; the inner texture is strong and pure, the taste is mellow, the soup color is yellow and bright, and the leaf bottom is yellow and bright.
Special jasmine tea
Special jasmine tea refers to the famous green tea or special form of green tea green tea blank after many times to make the finished product, the main products are jasmine silver millimeter, jasmine large pekoe, jasmine silver needle, jasmine snow bud, jasmine dragon ball, jasmine silver ring, jasmine phoenix eye, Bitan drifting snow and so on. The inner texture of special jasmine tea has the characteristics of fresh and strong aroma, fresh or mellow taste, and bright and clear soup color. However, the different colors vary according to the amount of flowers and the number of times of payment during the kilning process. Jasmine Drifting Snow product dry tea contains white jasmine petals.
Jasmine silver ring
Jasmine Dragon Ball
Jasmine Silver Millimeter
Snow drifting in Bitan
Styling craft flower tea
Using a special hand-shaped process flower tea, it not only uses the kiln process to process the flower tea, but also it selects flowers to blend the flowers and tea together through the manual processing process, and the tea leaves are like green flower trays when brewing, guarding the blooming flowers, integrating the beauty of the tea flavor, the fragrance of the fragrant flowers, the delicacy of the flowers and the shape of the tea, which is beautiful. Such as dangui fragrance, flying snow to welcome spring, jasmine fairy, Izumi hibiscus and other products.
Jasmine fairy
Jasmine butterfly loves flowers
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Pearl orchids
Pearl orchid tea is mainly produced in Shexian County, Anhui Province, Fujian Fuzhou, Hubei Wuhan, Zhejiang Jinhua, Sichuan Chengdu, Jiangxi Nanchang, Jiangsu Suzhou and Nanjing.
The aroma of pearl orchid tea is elegant and long, with the characteristics of "orchid fragrance is elegant, strong but not strong, clear but not light". Tea blanks mainly made of high-quality green teas such as Huangshan Maofeng, Huizhou Baked Green, laozhu Dafang, etc., with pearl orchid flowers, are refined through a specific flowering process. Such as Zhulan Generous, Zhulan Baking Green and so on.
/ Osmanthus Flower Tea /
Osmanthus Longjing
Osmanthus oolong
Osmanthus tea is mainly produced in Guilin, Guangxi, Xianning, Hubei, Anxi, Fujian, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Chengdu, Chongqing and other places. With the rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers to set off the mellow taste of tea and unique, tea has golden yellow dried flowers embellished, tea soup is clear and bright, osmanthus fragrance is rich and lasting, tea fragrance and floral fragrance coexist, taste mellow and thick. Representative ones are Osmanthus roasting in Guilin, Guangxi, Osmanthus Oolong in Anxi, Fujian, Osmanthus Longjing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and Osmanthus black tea in Beibei, Chongqing.
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Grapefruit flowers
Yuzu flower tea is mainly produced in Guangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Guangdong, Hunan, Zhejiang and other places. Yuzu flower tea has a strong aroma, fresh and long-lasting. The aroma of grapefruit flowers is more harmonious with the fragrance of jasmine, and jasmine tea can be mixed with jasmine to improve the aroma concentration of jasmine tea. It can also be prepared separately, among which yuzu flower green tea, yuzu flower black tea, and yuzu flower oolong tea are representative.
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Rose tea
Rose tea is mainly produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other provinces. Rose tea has a sweet, rich aroma and a luscious taste. Guangdong rose black tea and Fujian rose green tea are more representative.
Flower tea is a poetic tea, tea attracts floral fragrance, complement each other, fragrant but not floating, fresh but not turbid. Flower tea or fresh and elegant or rich fragrance or sweet and charming, there is always a kind of you like, tasting there is quite a bit of green agarwood pan-water mood, may a cup of mellow flower tea bring you a beautiful enjoyment!
About the Author
Sun Yun
Sun Yun, professor and doctoral supervisor of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, scientist of Oolong Tea Processing Post of National Tea Industry Technology System, Provincial Candidate of Fujian New Century Million Talents Project, Famous Tea Review Expert of Fujian Province, Female Science and Technology Committee Member of China Tea Society, National Senior Tea Appraiser, Senior Tea Art Technician, And Senior Evaluator of National Vocational Skills Appraisal.
He has long been engaged in tea processing and quality, tea culture and tea art research. He has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects such as the sub-project of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" National Science and Technology Support Program project "Development of Key Technologies and Equipment for Intelligent Energy-saving Tea Picking and Processing" and the National Spark Project Project "Research Application and Integration Demonstration of Key Technologies in tieguanyin Tea Industry 'Entrepreneurship Chain'", and published more than 100 papers and 8 papers. Participate in the compilation of "oolong tea finishing equipment", "flowers and fruits fragrant Tanyang Gongfu Minkehong" and other local and group standards. He has won the titles of National Outstanding Female Tea Science and Technology Worker and Outstanding Teacher of Chinese Tea Culture.
Source: China Tea Society