Longyan Xiebei tea
Pan-fired green tea from Jiangshan in Longyan’s Xinluo district, made from local Xiebei material with repeated firing and screening.
Character#
Tight grey-green strips with a yellow cast and yellow-green liquor. Official descriptions note a full taste, an olive-like returning sweetness and a slight mugwort-like aroma.
Processing#
Fixation
杀青Heat the fresh leaf before rolling.
Rolling
揉捻Roll to release leaf juice and tighten the strips.
Repeated pan-firing, cooling and screening
初炒、摊凉、复炒、过筛The manual GI method alternates firings with cooling and screening; the mechanical method uses a shorter firing-and-screening sequence.
Final drying
足火Complete drying, then cool the finished tea.
Also sold or written as 2#
- 斜背茶Xiebei tea
- Xiebei tea
Notes#
A local product and its raw material#
The protected product area covers sixteen villages in Jiangshan town, Xinluo district. The specification names local Longyan Xiebei tea material and describes large leaves. The specification does not identify a single named clone.
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