When is the best time to pick Keemun black tea? How to pick Keemun black tea

Drinking tea is often called tea tasting. In fact, it makes sense. You see, three sips is a tasting. Drinking tea basically requires three sips to get the essence. You need to drink three sips, taste carefully, and explore the sweetness of the tea. So now you know why you should taste tea! When is the best time to pick Keemun black tea? The following is a detailed sharing of the picking method of Keemun black tea.

Contents of this article

1. When is the best time to pick Keemun black tea?

2. Keemun black tea picking method

3. How to brew Keemun black tea

When is the best time to pick Keemun black tea?

The land in Qimen County in the southwest of Anhui Province, China is fertile, with red and yellow soil, and the climate is humid, with abundant rainfall and a large temperature difference between morning and evening. These superior natural conditions are very suitable for the growth of tea trees, so the raw leaves are tender and rich in water-soluble substances. The best quality of Qimen black tea is harvested in spring and summer.

The picking time for spring Keemun black tea is from around Qingming to before Grain Rain every year; the picking time for summer Keemun black tea is from June to August. When picking, you need to pay attention to the climate before and after. Rainy weather will affect the quality of tea, and tea leaves will grow rapidly every other night.

Keemun black tea picking method

When picking Keemun black tea, tea farmers only pick one bud and two leaves of fresh tea buds. After a process of withering, rolling, and fermentation, the buds and leaves change from green to copper-red, and the aroma is revealed. They are then baked over low heat until dry, and are carefully selected and the tea stems are removed.

In addition, it should be noted that the traditional Qimen Gongfu black tea takes about three months from raw tea to refined finished tea. The new technology only takes two or three days to make, and you can drink it. In order to anneal the flavor and blend the taste, it is best to store it for three to six months before drinking.

How to brew Keemun black tea

1. Prepare the utensils: Place the pot, fairness cup, tea tasting cup and scented cup on the tea tray; place the tea ceremony and tea sample jar on the left side of the tea tray; and place the kettle on the right side of the tea tray.

2. Tea appreciation: Open the tea sample jar and let the guests appreciate the color and shape of the tea.

3. Heat the cups and pots: Pour boiling water into the kettle, then pour the water into the fairness cup, and then pour it into the tea cup.

4. Add tea: put tea into the pot at a ratio of 1:50.

5. Wash the tea: Pick up the pot with your right hand and add water, use your left hand to take the lid and scrape off the foam, close the lid with your left hand, and pour the tea into the smelling cup.

6. The first brew of Keemun black tea: add boiling water into the pot, steep for one minute, take the opportunity to wash the cup, pour out the water, take the pot in your right hand and pour the tea into the fairness cup, then pour from the fairness cup into the smelling cup, only filling it 70% full.

7. Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate: Use your right hand to turn the tea cup upside down and place it on the smelling cup. Place your right thumb on the bottom of the tea cup and your index finger on the bottom of the smelling cup and flip it over.

8. Traveling: Hold the bottom of the tea cup with your left hand, lift the scent cup from the tea cup with your right hand, and turn it around the rim of the cup.

9. Enjoy the subtle fragrance: Place the smelling cup on your left palm with the cup mouth downwards, rotate it 90 degrees with the cup mouth facing yourself, cover the cup mouth with your thumb, place it under your nose, and smell the subtle fragrance.

10. Sip sweet tea: three sips is one tasting. You should drink it in three sips, savor it carefully and explore the sweetness of the tea.

11. Second and third soaks: follow the same procedure as above.