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Mengding Huangya Tea
Mengding Mountain is located on the Tibetan Plateau in NW Sichuan Province. It is considered by tea historians to be the birthplace of cultivated tea in China. Mengding Mountain is situated northwest of Mt Emei, one of the four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism.
Huang Ya is a springtime phenomenon: they are ‘first-of-the-season’ compact, tender, juicy buds brimming with the vigor of tea bushes that are beginning their annual growth cycle. Yellow teas are increasingly uncommon in China because few tea makers specialize in making them today. The extra work involved in making yellow tea is more labor-intensive than that for manufacturing green tea and the market for these teas is judged to be dwindling.
Huang Ya begins when tea pluckers gather delicate, sword-shaped buds and carefully place them into small silk bags (rather than traditional woven bamboo tea plucking baskets) to avoid any damage to the buds. Two workers picking in this manner for one full day will gather only one kilo of fresh buds.
This is a very elegant tea. The overall taste sensation of this tea is mineral-stone crisp & clean with an underlying layer of sweetness. Mengding Mountain Snow Buds has a cool and bracing quality that affirms its high altitude environment - terroir - and expresses the chilly early spring weather during which it flushes in the spring.
Huang Ya is a springtime phenomenon: they are ‘first-of-the-season’ compact, tender, juicy buds brimming with the vigor of tea bushes that are beginning their annual growth cycle. Yellow teas are increasingly uncommon in China because few tea makers specialize in making them today. The extra work involved in making yellow tea is more labor-intensive than that for manufacturing green tea and the market for these teas is judged to be dwindling.
Huang Ya begins when tea pluckers gather delicate, sword-shaped buds and carefully place them into small silk bags (rather than traditional woven bamboo tea plucking baskets) to avoid any damage to the buds. Two workers picking in this manner for one full day will gather only one kilo of fresh buds.
This is a very elegant tea. The overall taste sensation of this tea is mineral-stone crisp & clean with an underlying layer of sweetness. Mengding Mountain Snow Buds has a cool and bracing quality that affirms its high altitude environment - terroir - and expresses the chilly early spring weather during which it flushes in the spring.
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