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Magnolia Tea Guide

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Getting an Oolong Tea

Oolong Tea is primarily sold in the Fujian Province of China. It is because authentic Oolong teas are made there. It is also available in Japan, where the authentic Oolong tea gets repacked. However, if travelling halfway across the world just to buy your tea isn’t your cup of tea, this brand of tea is also available online.

You can use the convenience that modern technology has to offer and still get the best Oolong Tea available. You can also go to your local Chinatown or store and ask around for any Oolong tea.

Oolong teas are already grown world wide in different nations, you just have to check its processing to get that tea effect.

Oolong teas have different grades; this shouldn’t discourage you, because the grades are just all about how dark you want your tea.

The Process of Making Oolong Tea

This brand of tea has to go through several processes before it becomes the Oolong tea that we enjoy.

1. Withering – The leaf is dried and preserved, a process that takes up to two days.

2. Rolling – In order for the tea to achieve its unique flavour, the leaves are rolled and twisted under pressure, breaking up its cellular structures to release its juices and enzymes.

3. Roll-breaking – The tea are then pressed into clumps, and the coarse leaves are separated from the fine ones. The coarse ones are rolled again. Roll-breaking initiates the oxidation of the leaves from the heat that was generated.

4. Fermentation – This crucial process is where the leaves are spread on the floor and turn into a bright copper color in order to develop the substance called tannin, which affects the overall taste of the tea.

5. Firing – the last process by which the leaves are dried by being passed under hot, dry air under carefully controlled temperature.

05-02-2010

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