If you purchase this product you will earn Guangdong Pingshang Fried Green Tea 2010
Guangdong Pingshang Fried Green Tea (Chao Cha) is a kind of green tea definitely suitable and good for aging, and having unique flavour when it was aged. Ping Shang Village坪上村located in Jie Yang of Guangdong, a high mountain area located in the intersection of three Guangdong cities, Jie Yang, Chao Zhou, and Mei Zhou. It is named as Ping Shang, which literally means it is located above the flat land. It located at the mountain over 1000m, the soil is having good penetration and acidity, which is favorable for tea growing.
Making process of Chao Cha Green Tea
The Tea here is already aged for 10 years. As a special kind of Chao Qing Green Tea (Stir-fry Green Tea), the making process and taste is a bit different from other stir-fried green tea like Long Jing and Bi Luo Chun. It is special in its strong and baked/ roasted flavour. As of its name “Chao Cha”, translated as “Fried Tea”, it involves an important step – “Frying”. After the tea was plucked, it immediately undergone the kill-green process to stop the fermentation. After the green-killing step, it was rolled and rubbed for shaping, and then it undergone several times of frying and re-frying for drying the moisture – it was re-fried for several times, and each time involves more than 6-8 hours, involve 2-3 days. After repeating fried by medium to high heat fire, the tea turns from green to red-brown, tea liquor turns into yellowish-red, the tea is full of roasted flavour with rich and complex mouthfeel.
How the Chao Cha Green Tea changed during the aging process?
The Tea here is already aged for 10 years. , the tea become unique in its aged flavour, it is still strong with apparent roasted notes even it is stored for years, but the roasted notes become less intense with rounded and rich mouthfeel. You can still find the apparent “Hui Gan” in it!
Weight per pack: 25g
Tea Farm Location: Pingshang, Guangdong, China
Harvest Time: Spring 2010
Tasting Notes: rounded and rich mouthfeel, roasted flavor, nutty, lingering sweetness
Dry Leaves Appearance: small and twisted shape, greyish-green in colour
Tea Liquor Colour: Bright and clear light orange
