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Tea
Story/ Love Chan
POST-WINTER TEA:
UNEXPECTED WINTER GIFT
Is Post-winter tea also winter tea? Even ber or upcoming January. Generally speaking, temperature
though they are both harvested in winter, a big goes down again after winter tea was harvested - tea leaves’
difference in terms of mouthfeel during tasting physiological function and metabolism slows down, and
exists. Winter tea usually sprouts in September almost goes into hibernation. Warm weather at the end of
and is harvested in autumn from the end of winter misleads the tea trees that spring is coming. There-
October to November. Post-winter tea usually fore, tea trees begin to have small leaves, this tea is the
sprouts in November and is harvested in Decem- so-called post-winter tea. As the harvest period is very
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