Anhua Thousand Liang Cha – 2009 Hunan Fermented Dark Tea Roll

Origin: Anhua town, Hunan Province

Harvest: 2009 June, tender leaves, strong pile fermented and manual pressed into roll-shape

Grade: First Level

Direction:

• dry tea is roll shape with suitable tightness, lustrous black color
• reddish yellow color tea soup, clear and bright
• clean and pure, glutinous rice delicate fragrances
• mellow and thick, pure and mild, slightly brown sugar ginger tastes
• wet tea is black brown

Introduction:

Flower Rolls tea (Thousand Liang tea) has a simple appearance. Shaped like a tree pole, it is packaged with lattice strips, baskets, and hoops.The origin of ‘Flower’ is the shape and pattern resembling a flower bud showing on the finished tea roll, the outer packaging is a lattice bamboo basket woven with bamboo strips. Previously written as ‘roll’, ‘roll ‘refers to the production of the tea gradually forming through continuous pressing and rolling. Through continuous kneading, the tea juice and inner substance continuously overflow, increasing the stickiness and glutinosity of the tea, thereby achieving the purpose of tight forming.

Flower Roll tea is made from Anhua superior dark tea through the processes of screening, picking, wind selection, shaping and blending. Some Flower Roll tea has a kind of mushroom flower growing inside the tea body, which has now been confirmed as Eurotium Cristatum. In the production of Steamed rolls tea, the raw materials should be screened, sorted, shaped, and stacked. In the processing, it needs to be twisted, pressed, stamped, rolled, and hammered, wrapped with polygonum leaves, wrapped with brown pieces, and then tied with bamboo strips to form a cylindrical shape.

Dark tea of Anhua, Hunan province, it is used big leaves of the tea variety from local mountain areas, raw materials need to be roasted, rolled, pile-fermented and dried, then naturally ageing process is also necessary. Anhua dark tea can be pressed into many different forms (brick, cake, coin, chocolate or cylinder etc.).