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TeaVivre said 2012-11-30 01:29:30 -0500

Making Process of Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea

Tie guan yin is a semi-fermented tea. Also making oolong tea is complicated as well as takes a lot of skill. It retains green tea’s sweet and fragrant smell, while and it also reminds you of black tea’s strong fragrance and mellow flavors. Generally, making Tie Guan Yin tea needs the following process:

plucking tea leaves (caiqing), sun withering(shaiqing), cooling(liangqing), tossing(yaoqing), fixation(shaqing), rolling(rounian), drying(ganzao).

More details through here:  http://www.teavivre.com/info/making-process-of-tie-guan-yin-oolong-tea/

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ashmanra said 2012-11-30 09:09:58 -0500

No wonder it tastes so good!

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