What month is the spring tea season? When is the spring tea harvested?

The temperature during the Spring Festival is moderate and the rainfall is abundant. This makes the tea rich in nutrients, with thick mesophyll, high content of aromatic substances and vitamins, fresh taste, strong aroma, and tight and heavy appearance. Usually, green tea is green and black tea is dark, with good quality. It is especially popular among tea lovers. Drinking tea has become a very important culture of ours, and everyone has their own hobbies and tastes.

Contents of this article

1. Which month is the spring tea season?

2. When is spring tea picked?

3. What is the difference between Dahongpao spring tea and autumn tea?

What month is spring tea?

Spring tea refers to tea leaves picked before the end of May of the current year. Spring tea generally refers to tea leaves picked from the first sprouts of tea trees after wintering.

The temperature in spring is moderate, the rainfall is sufficient, and the tea trees have been resting for half a year in winter, so they are rich in nutrients, which makes the spring tea leaves thick, with high aromatic substances and vitamin content, fresh taste, strong aroma, and tight and heavy appearance. Usually, green tea is green and moist, black tea is dark and moist, and the quality is better.

Summer tea refers to the tea harvested from early May to early July. The weather is hot in summer, and the new shoots and leaves of the tea trees grow rapidly, which makes the content of water extract that can dissolve the tea soup relatively reduced, especially the reduction of amino acids, which makes the taste and aroma of the tea soup not as strong as spring tea. Because the content of bitter anthocyanins, caffeine, and tea polyphenols is higher than spring tea, not only the purple buds and leaves are different in color, but also the taste is more bitter.

Autumn tea: refers to tea harvested after mid-August. The climate in autumn is between spring and summer. The tea trees have grown through spring and summer, and the new shoots contain relatively less substances. The leaves are of different sizes, the bottom of the leaves are crisp, the leaves are yellow, and the taste and aroma are relatively mild.

Winter tea: It is harvested in late October. Winter tea grows after the autumn tea is harvested and the climate gradually turns cold. Because the new shoots of winter tea grow slowly and the substances contained in it gradually increase, the taste is mellow and the aroma is strong.

When is spring tea picked?

1. Different tea varieties have different harvesting times. The picking time of spring tea is affected to a certain extent by tea variety factors. For example, Hainan Baisha green tea has new tea on the market at the end of January; Wenzhou Yongjia Wuniuzao variety begins to be picked in mid-to-late February; Fuding white tea is generally picked in early March; West Lake Longjing has to wait until a few days before Qingming Festival; Pu'er first spring also ranges from mid-to-late February to March.

2. The tea harvest in the north is later than in the south, and even later in the high-altitude tea areas. Affected by the latitude and altitude of the production area, the tea harvest time in the Jiangbei tea area is later than that in the south, usually around the Qingming Festival. In some high-altitude tea areas, the first harvest time is even later.

3. Drought or low temperature will delay the spring picking time. The climate characteristics of the year, such as precipitation and temperature, will have a certain impact on the picking time. Drought and low temperature will slow down the growth of tea trees, delay the spring picking time, and even affect the yield and quality of tea.

4. Harvesting usually takes place in early to mid-April, when there are 10-15% new shoots in the tea garden and they meet the picking standards.

What is the difference between Dahongpao spring tea and autumn tea?

The division of spring tea and autumn tea is mainly based on seasonal changes and the intermittent growth of new shoots in the tea village. Due to different tea seasons, the growth conditions of tea trees are different. Therefore, even if the tea leaves of different tea seasons are picked in the same tea garden, there are great differences in appearance and internal quality. Spring tea is generally picked from the end of April to mid-May. Spring tea has the longest growth cycle, plump tea buds, emerald green color, soft leaves, and rich vitamins, especially amino acids. Therefore, spring tea soup tastes the best and has the most obvious rock rhyme, which is highly praised by most tea lovers. Autumn tea is generally picked after the beginning of autumn. The new shoots of tea trees contain relatively less substances, the leaves are of different sizes, the bottom of the leaves are crisp, the leaves are yellow, and the taste and aroma are relatively peaceful. "Spring tea, the water is the best; winter leaves, the tea is the most fragrant; autumn tea, the quality is average; summer tea is bitter" is our evaluation of Dahongpao's four-season tea. Because the quality of summer tea and autumn tea is not very good, Dahongpao is usually only picked in spring and winter. However, despite this, due to its special reasons, the tea tastes better, has better flavor, and has higher nutritional elements in spring compared to autumn.