Scented tea making technique (Wu Yutai jasmine tea making technique)

Dongcheng District, Beijing
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Scented tea, also known as "smoked tea", "scented tea" and "scented tea", belongs to the category of reprocessed tea. Among them, jasmine tea is made by scenting green tea with jasmine flowers for many times. The tea brings out the fragrance of flowers, and the flowers enhance the flavor of tea. The tea flavor and the fragrance of flowers are cleverly integrated, which constitutes the unique quality of jasmine tea and is known as the treasure of scented tea. Wu Yutai, founded in 1887, is a well-known old tea brand in China. It has always adhered to the unique scenting technique of self-collection, self-scenting and self-mixing. It mainly includes nine processes: making tea leaves, selecting flower sources, maintaining fresh flowers, making magnolia base, scenting and mixing, dissipating heat through flowers, picking flowers, baking, and evenly stacking and packing. Only spring tea base is used, the "three no-picking principles" of jasmine are adhered to, the proportion of Anhui tea base is appropriately increased in the blending, and unique techniques such as "low temperature slow baking" are used, which eventually formed the characteristics of Wu Yutai jasmine tea: "fresh and lasting aroma, mellow and sweet taste, clear and bright soup color, and resistance to brewing". Due to the high cost of jasmine tea raw materials, complex processing techniques, long cycle, and the influence of other teas, the current market share is declining year by year. In terms of publicity, the people also have a great misunderstanding of jasmine tea, thinking that jasmine tea is low-quality tea. Faced with market competition, many traditional varieties of jasmine tea in enterprises are even operating at a loss at a low price. In addition, due to the difficult working environment and high technical difficulty, young people are unwilling to inherit and learn the jasmine tea scenting technique, and the inheritance of this traditional technique faces a grim situation.

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