Frozen top oolong tea, hemispherical bag seed tea. Now it has become a popular girl's drink on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but many people do not understand what this frozen top means.
In fact, the frozen top (a mountain called the frozen top mountain) is not the practice of frozen tea - the frozen top mountain is a branch of the Phoenix Mountain in Nantou County, Taiwan Province, with an altitude of more than 700 meters, lush vegetation, clouds and mist on the top of the mountain all year round, the air humidity is large, and the growth of trees is especially suitable for the growth of tea trees. Because the clouds and mist are moist, the leaves are thick and tender, the taste is mellow / the air humidity of the frozen peak mountain is large, and it often rains, the mountain road is slippery, and the tea farmers who go up the mountain to pick tea have to be careful and tighten their toes (commonly known as "frozen toes") in order to climb to the top of the mountain step by step. Because of this, this mountain is called frozen top mountain, and the oolong tea produced on this mountain has the unique saying of frozen bird dragon!
Legend has it that there was no oolong tea in the early frozen peak mountain, and during the five years of Qing Xianfeng, there was a reader in Nantou County, Lin Fengchi, who waded through the mountains and waters to Fujian to take the imperial examination, and it is unknown whether the examination was successful. But he was full of food in Fujian and drank the local oolong tea, such as a treasure. Therefore, when returning home, Lin Fengchi brought back 36 oolong tea seedlings from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province and planted them in Frozen Peak Mountain and other places. Later, careful comparison found that the taste of oolong tea produced by Frozen Peak Mountain was top-notch. As a result, the frozen-top oolong tea garden gradually developed.
How to brew the top oolong? Frozen top oolong is mainly in Taiwan, so the Taiwan brewing method is adopted, and the small purple sand pot is brewed with a tea cup and a smell cup. Frozen top oolong tea can be brewed with mountain spring water, because this water is rich in minerals and less chloride, and the brewed tea is clear and mellow.
Frozen-topped oolong is harvested from the buds of fine varieties such as Qingxin Oolong, and is made by drying green, drying green, langqing, stir-frying, twisting, first baking, multiple kneading, re-baking, and re-roasting. The shape of the frozen-topped oolong is curled and hemispherical, the color is emerald green and oily, the soup color is yellow and green, and the floral fragrance is slightly caramelized, and the taste is mellow and strong.
In 1881, Fujian tea merchants set up tea houses in Taiwan to produce. Tea shops in Anxi sell tea with two square raw edge paper, the inside and outside are matched, put in 4 pairs of tea leaves, wrap rectangular square bags, cover the outside of the bag with the marks of the tea shop, and then sell according to the package.
Taiwan Baozhong tea is a mild or moderately fermented tea, also known as "fragrant oolong tea". Baozhong tea can be divided into two categories according to different shapes, one is the strip baozhong tea, represented by "Wenshan Baozhong tea"; the other is hemispherical baozhong tea, represented by "frozen top oolong tea". It is known as "North Wen Mountain, South Frozen Peak" reputation.
Now there are not many people who insist on making tea, the area of the tea garden has suddenly shrunk, but the annual production of tea is only a few thousand pounds, but the market is filled with hundreds of thousands of pounds of frozen-top oolong, which can only be said to be a bit like the "Mongolian golden Junmei", so it is also a great blessing in life to be able to drink the real frozen-top oolong.