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T Tea

In recent years, medium-light roasted tea is
quite popular as it has strong floral fragrance such
as Tie Guan Yin Tea with full body and smooth
mouthfeel. In addition, unlike Tie Guan Yin Tea, Rock
tea is single cultivar with unique fragrance. The
color of medium-roasted tealeaves is red and brown
with warm fragrance, thick and full body and fruity
flavor. The color of extracted fluid is bright orange,
that is full of sweetness. Most people can’t get used
to medium-roasted tea at the beginning as it has no
unique fragrance and the taste is pretty new. Same
as Chinese liquor, one can only enjoy it once get used
to stronger spirits with particular aroma such as Mao
Tai Liquor (the most famous and pricy Chinese li-
quor). Rock tea is the same, you can appreciate its
art of processing and brewing with 8 grams of tea
leaves and 110ml of boiling water only after getting
used to it. Talking about the origin, the unique
aroma from varies origins can be clearly distin-
guished in medium-roasted level. You can find out

You can appreciate it only after

getting used to it.

the quality of tea processing by roasting the tea at light
or medium level and modulate magnificent aroma and
fragrance. At this roasting level, the characteristics of
cultivar and origin will show themselves.
Dark-roasting makes tealeaves glossy black with
milk tea or coffee flavor. The liquid is transparent
with brownish red color, but light mouthfeel. Dark-
roasting tea actually doesn’t taste bitter, caffeine does
but it is very easy to sublimate and vaporize it out
during roasting process.
The whole process of tea-roasting develops various
fragrances and flavors, even though many compounds
are lost during roasting. The result of continuing bak-
ing might differ, it depends on how the tea-merchants
and roasters modulate the roasting profile in order to
demonstrate the best of their tea. Different origins give
tea different substances and compounds. The richer
the endosarc level a tea has, the more capable this tea
is to be developed during roasting. In other words, there
would be more potential for certain teas to demonstrate
its unique characteristics. That’s why there is difference
between core origin and general origin for growing tea,
which is similar to wine, and this is exactly the taste
of tea origin.

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