#huangya

La Da Huo or flash roasting is an unique technique for Lu An teas (Gua Pian and Huang Ya). This “risky” step repeatedly flash roast already dried leaves and can easily ruin an otherwise solid mediocre batch of tea. But when done right this fining step solidifies all the notes, greatly enhance and purify the aroma of the tea. These time consuming and risky steps are what’s often missing in today’s commercial teas, the details that makes good tea great. #yummy #guapian #huangya #六安 #roasting #traditionaltea https://www.instagram.com/p/CDy6vzwFBvW/?igshid=xqntiwl9uslh

Appreciate and honor what you have instead of focusing on what you do not. . . . #taohua #appreciate #honor #focusing #gaiwan #gongdaobei #reading #vas #peachblossom #pearflower #vase #huangya #mending #yellowtea #laochuancha #covid #covid2020 #covi̇d19 #unity #collaboration #homeworld #globalvillage #peace #mind #love #enjoylife #joy #handmade #traditionalhandicraft #morimatea https://www.instagram.com/p/B-f4kfHAkB9/?igshid=1nmzg72q3a0gx

My arrangement made with Canva.

4 pickers, 3 makers, from 6am to 2am, we are now at about 4 pounds of rough tea that need to be yellowed once for a minimum of 48 hours, then twice baked and yellowed again for 24 hours before we wait for a week for the final Zhuang Huo step. I've slept for 9 hour total for three days. This is tea season. This is real tea. - Shunan Teng #huangya (at Huoshan)

Even at semi-dry state it’s easy to tell apart the handmade and machine made string-shape green and yellow teas (tea is #huangya in picture). #yellowtea #greentea #handmadetea #terroir #artisanal #freshtea (at Tea Drunk) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB0_LoGFU-z/?igshid=26129fq96zyb

Go to tea-drunk.com/yellow-tea/huang-ya for details, brewing instructions, and to order the yellow tea that Shunan tasted on our live stream today. Huang Ya 霍山黃芽 Sweet nuts, full-bodied umaminess, floral edge. Yellow tea is the rarest of the six tea categories in China, with the least production and fewest regions producing it. It is micro-fermented and has a profile similar to green tea, but is little rounder, smoother with a warmer mouthfeel. Huang Ya means yellow bud and refers to the yellow hue of both the fresh and the finished tea leaves. Our #huangya is “yellowed” 3 to 7 times for a total of 96-200 hours. To finish the fining, the tea is then put on a bamboo tray to be flashed roasted over charcoal for an hour. This is a unique and ancient technique of the region called Zhuang Huo, a highly risky step as it is done to already dried tea leaves, but it is essential for producing the most excellent tea. It repels any last bit of impurity and solidifies all the notes with enhanced aroma. #rare #savory #cornsilk #umami (at Tea Drunk) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Xk3AxFYNd/?igshid=1txm9j4qjlk7z

Shunan at the Divine Tea Garden of Golden Rooster Mountain during our 2015 tea trip. She'll be tasting our Huang Ya today at 2 pm EST on Instagram Live. Bring your questions or drop them in the comments below. #yellowtea #huangya #divineteatree The tasting video will be in our stories for 24 hours after the live stream, then on facebook.com/teadrunknyc/videos. (at Comte de Huoshan) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-W_Vp9Fbjh/?igshid=1rg7u2pyjwad7

New teas are here!! #guapian #huangya #puer #longjing etc. Hope you are as excited as we are 🤩🤩🤩 (at Tea Drunk) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByA5TCalHBm/?igshid=1pwxvtyja87ee