Following the "Iron Luohan" and "White Chicken Crown" of the previous two days, today I will share with you one of the "Four Famous Teas of Wuyi".
Water turtle tea belongs to Wuyi rock tea, which is a semi-fermented tea. Fermentation is an important part of making water turtle tea, and it is also the source of its mellow taste.
The kneaded tea balls are packed in a bamboo basket, slightly pressed, covered with a sackcloth soaked in warm water, after about five to six hours, the leaf veins will reveal a reddish brown color, at which time they can be roasted and dried, evaporating the water to prevent further fermentation.
Generally speaking, the fermentation of Wuyi Rock Tea and other oolong tea is not completely fermented, which makes the tea aroma a faint floral fragrance or fruity aroma, it is precisely because of this semi-fermentation technique coupled with the particularity of the water turtle tea species, so that the taste of the water turtle tea has both the sweetness of Tieguanyin and the fragrance of green tea, fresh. Its elegance and aroma make it a treasure in tea.
The main production areas of the water golden turtle are now the Huiyuan pit, the bullpen pit and the big pit mouth in Wuyi Mountain, where the water golden turtle not only has the largest introduction area, but also the best quality.
Among them, Huiyuan Pit is the largest area among the three pits and two streams, and is the main production area of Wuyi Rock Tea. The bud leaves of the water turtle in this production area are very fertile, and in the spring, the young leaves of the tea garden are very dense. The young buds that have just grown will not grow old soon, and the water turtle tea tree is drought-tolerant and cold-resistant, and the survival rate of cuttings is very high, which is in stark contrast to the shortcomings of the white chicken crown tea that are not easy to survive mentioned yesterday.
There is a Huiyuan Temple under the Huiyuan Rock, according to legend, the host of zen tea integration, the tea ceremony has reached its peak, every year many tea friends come to visit and practice the tea ceremony.
Autumn at Huiyuan Temple
The reason why the water turtle is so named is because the branches and leaves of the water turtle tea tree are crisscrossed, but it is not messy, and it looks like a turtle pattern from a distance, plus the leaves of the water turtle are shiny, the sun is empty, and the whole tea tree is like a big glittering turtle, so people name it "Water Golden Turtle".
The name Water Turtle is really widespread and has its roots in the Qing Dynasty.
It is said that the earliest water turtle tea tree grew under the Tianxin Rock Duge Village, and one day, a downpour washed down the tea garden on the top of the mountain, and the precious water turtle tea tree was washed by the water to the semi-rock depression of the bullpen pit.
The owner of the bullpen pit, Langu Mountain, was very happy to see the situation, so he sent someone to chisel the mountain, lay a staircase, go directly to the place where the water golden turtle is, and use a stone to form a fence to take this water golden turtle for himself, and later between Tianxin Temple and Langu Rock in order to compete for the ownership of this tea tree, many times to find the government lawsuit, and even the two sides have offered the price of gold thousand two, want to buy the ownership of the water golden turtle tea tree.
The government judged that this matter was caused by natural disasters, not man-made disasters, and since the tea tree was already under the jurisdiction of Languyan, the tea tree belonged to Languyan.
Since then, the water golden turtle has become famous and well-known to everyone.
The harvest season for the golden turtle is in mid-May every year, and the fresh leaves are picked for two or three leaves. After that, it needs to go through the process of withering, kneading, fermentation, baking, rebaking and so on.
Easy to distinguish, unique in taste and enticing in aroma.
Shape: the cord is tightly knotted, curved, uniform, the color is blue-brown and shiny, showing an elegant treasure light.
Tea soup: The soup color is orange and yellow, clear and gorgeous.
Tea aroma: The aroma contains the plum blossom fragrance in the floral fragrance of semi-fermented tea, and its aroma is delicate and distant.
Entrance taste: the taste is smooth and soft, the rock rhyme is very strong, because its aroma contains plum blossom fragrance, so the water golden turtle has the "rock bone flower fragrance" of rock tea.
If it is a generalization, it should be "green in color, brown, moist, strong in taste, mellow and sweet, with prominent rock rhyme, high aroma, like plum blooming."
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