Outright skillful artists make the best Dragon Well Chinese tea

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Outright skillful artists make the best Dragon Well Chinese tea

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Just in the same day, Chinese artists begin their complicated process of hand making tea, by which, it keeps tea smell fresh and have better taste.

Firstly, Withering: Dragon Well Chinese Tea Pickers spread the tea leaves thinly to dry for 8 to 10 hours.

In this way, tea artists fruitfully get rid of 30% of the moisture, dispel the grassy smell and reduce the bitterness. It increases the level of the yummy taste as well.

Then, it comes to roasting. Roasting is done by bare hands to allow the roaster to feel the wok temperature. It is in a big dark pot that organic tea was roasted by bare hands. The temperature of pot is around 180 Celsius. Can you imagine that? If they do not want to stand this high temperature, they always can choose machine to roast. But the high class Dragon Well Chinese tea requires bare hands to make.

To accomplish this special step, the bare hands are required to closely touch the hot pot to roast tea. Only outright experienced artist, like 50 years of roasting tea, is able to do roast while keep their hands safe from hotness.

In fact, the 10 distinct hands movements of roasting Dragon Well Tea cost a novice 3 years to master.

After that, they can fry only 1 kilogram of high grade Chinese Tea 24 hours.

This complicated roasting consists of two parts: Qingguo and Huiguo.

Qingguo straightens, broadens and flattens the tea leaves into an attractive spear shape. The color of best quality Dragon Well Chinese Tea should be green and a little yellow.

It costs tea artists 12 to 15 minutes. And they need to be able to work under temperature ranging from 80 to 100 degree Celsius.

Consiquently, tea roasters make 100 grams roasted and 25% of the moisture is left.

After that, the roasters make the tea leaves to cool for 40 to 60 minutes.

Huiguo dries the leaves further to avoid the tea leaves from oxidizing.

Young tea shoots are naturally covered by baby white hairs. The tea artists make the leaves smooth by removing all fine hairs.

This second process lasts 20 to 25 minutes. Like the above, the labor working temperature is from 60 to 70 degree Celsius. It is super unpeasant to work under this high temperature.

In return, about 250 grams are roasted until 5% of the moisture is left.

Ok now, you finally are able to sell chestnutty fragrance, see cooked leaves which are flat, broad, straight, smooth, glossy and crispy. Yummy…

That is how legendary Dragon Well Chinese Tea was produced by hands. Ok it is time to drink this wonderful organic green tea. Let’s get the benefits right now.

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