April is a good season for picking tea, and Wenzhou is also a very suitable place for tea trees to grow. Of course there are many tea gardens, so where are the places in Wenzhou that are perfect for tea tasting? Here are a few recommended places for you. let's see!
Wenzhou Tea Garden Specialty Morning Tea
Yongjia Wuniu Morning Tea
“The water of Nanxi River is fragrant, and the qiongzhi and jade leaves are extraordinary.” Yongjia Wuniu tea is the earliest in Zhejiang Famous teas on the market are generally produced and launched from late February to early March. The superior ecological environment, precious early sprouting varieties, and exquisite craftsmanship have created the high-quality famous tea "Yongjia Wu Niuzao".
Wuzao tea is flat and smooth, with tender and fat leaves at the bottom, clear soup color, high aroma and sweet and refreshing taste. It has been introduced and promoted throughout the country and has made important contributions to the improvement of tea trees in my country. In 2008, Yongjia Wuniu Morning Tea was included in the second batch of Wenzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
Tantou Village, Sanjiang Street, is an A-level scenic village and the core area of ??Ouyao Town. The village is backed by a thousand acres of Wuniu morning tea tea garden and is the core origin area of ??Yongjia Wuniu morning tea. The green tea garden, at a glance, the blue sky and the green tea garden merge into one. During the tea-picking season, groups of tea farmers are busy picking tea among the tea leaves, which is like a fresh pastoral picture. There are hundreds of acres of fertile farmland in front of the village, and the crisscrossing countryside is like a colorful pastoral. Visitors can also experience Ou kiln making, porcelain painting, tea ceremony and other cultural activities here.
Ouhai yellow-leaf jujube
Ouhai yellow-leaf jujube has always been a "precious early-growing tea tree variety" in China. With the initial development of one bud and one leaf and one bud and two leaves, famous tea can be made and put on the market at the end of February or early March, more than 20 days earlier than ordinary varieties. It is said that since the Song Dynasty, the tea here has been listed as a palace tribute many times and has long been famous.
In mountainous areas with an altitude of more than 400 meters, such as the Ouhai Tea Mountain where it originated, the mountains are high and foggy, the trees are lush, and the climate is warm and humid. "Get the aura of heaven and earth, absorb the essence of clouds and mists", the famous tea products produced here are flat and smooth, green in color, high in aroma, sweet in taste and unique in flavor, and are known as "Longjing in southern Zhejiang".
If you want to go on a tea-hunting trip around the city, you might as well go to the top of Luoda Mountain to look for yellow leaf algae and find a quiet place among the B&Bs and farmhouses on the mountain.
Made in Ruian
Qingming dates are Ruian’s specialty agricultural products and began to be cultivated in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the four famous morning teas in Wenzhou. It has a long history, is on the market early, has excellent quality, and has the quality characteristics of "fresh fragrance, green color and bright taste". In 2012, "Ruian Qingming Jujube" was recognized by the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce as China's National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark.
"Ruian Qingming Zao" is a rare and extremely early-maturing variety that germinates more than 20 days earlier than the West Lake Longjing group. Picking begins after the Spring Festival and enters the peak season around Qingming Festival, and is available on the market more than 10 days earlier than ordinary varieties.
Pingyang Zaoxiang Tea
Zaoxiang tea is produced in Daping Mountain, Aojiang Town, Pingyang County, with an altitude of 528 meters. Germination occurs very early, and the first harvest of one bud and one leaf is at the end of February. This is a rare early growing valuable variety. And "Pingyang Morning Fragrance Tea" is a provincial famous tea and a high-quality product. Unique color, aroma, taste and shape. Flat, straight, green, long-lasting aroma, fresh and mellow taste, refreshing aftertaste, clear and bright soup color, bright green leaves at the bottom and blossoming buds and leaves, it is the most famous tea in Pingyang.
Fine Green Tea
Yandang Maofeng
Yandang Mountain is developed from volcanic rocks and has basically no aquifer. The Dalong Waterfall River Basin and the bottom of the Salt Lake have formed a sponge-like aquifer due to weathered crust. The aquifer nourishes Dalong Falls and allows wild geese to swing back and forth on Maofeng.
Yanmaofeng, also known as Yancha, is produced on the back of Longqiu. Because it grows on the top of a mountain, it is bathed in clouds and mist all year round
"Good mountains and good water produce good tea." Thailand is surrounded by mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist, with crisscrossed streams, a mild climate and abundant sunshine. The soil is mostly yellow soil and gray brown soil. It contains fine gravel in season, has a loose texture and is rich in organic matter, creating unique conditions for tea production. Thai tea has a long history and a long-standing reputation. Three Cups of Incense is at the top of the list. It is collected from the tender green buds and leaves of tea trees in Taishun Mountain area and is carefully crafted. After three times of brewing, there is still a lingering fragrance, so it is known as "the fragrance is high and the taste is mellow and lasts for a long time". Therefore, it has won provincial famous tea awards for many times in a row, becoming a high-quality local famous tea in Zhejiang Province, and was listed as a special tea for Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, moving from the mountainous areas of southern Zhejiang to state banquets.
The fragrance of Shun Sanbei is thin and delicate, with the front seedlings exposed, green in color and yellowish in color, like the core of lotus seeds. The fragrance is quiet, with the aroma of mung beans, and rich.
The fragrance of Shun Sanbei is famous for its "three yellow-green" characteristics, such as gray-green with yellow, soup color with yellow-green color, bright yellow with light green leaves at the bottom.
The Ten Thousand Mu Tea Garden in Shiyang Town, Taishun County, which was selected as "2019 China's Beautiful Tea Garden", is the main production area of ??Taishun's famous tea "Three Cups of Fragrance". Being in a tea garden, looking from a distance, rows of tea trees are growing well. The hillsides are all green. The wind blows gently, and the fragrance of tea leaves blows towards your face, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Cangnan Wufeng Tea
Wufeng is located in Qiaodun Town, Cangnan County, surrounded by mountains and mist, with an altitude of 300-600 meters. It has four distinct seasons, warm in winter and cool in summer. The unique ecological environment is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. The air here has a faint fragrance of tea and a sense of transparency in the mountains. Coming here to enjoy tea is a favorite among tea lovers.
Wufeng Fragrant Tea is produced in Wudai Mountain in Wufeng Township. It has a delicate and curly shape, green color, long-lasting aroma, fresh and intoxicating taste, and bright soup color. Wufeng Fragrant Tea has won excellent awards from Zhejiang Province many times. If you are a cycling enthusiast, you can also ride on the Tea Garden Green Road. All the views are just right.
Chenggong Tea
Wencheng Gong Tea is a famous tea in history. It is said that Liu Ji, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, paid tribute to Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang every year with the finest tea from his hometown, which was highly praised.
It is divided into tribute green, tribute red and tribute white. Among them, Lu Gong is the most famous, with beautiful appearance, flat and smooth strings, sharp appearance, exposed bud tips and emerald green color. After brewing, the bottom of the leaves will be green and colored, and the soup will be clear, green and bright. The taste is fresh and refreshing, the aftertaste is sweet, the aroma is elegant, the fragrance is long-lasting, the fragrance is floral, and the quality is high, and it is favored by everyone.
Wencheng County Jiulongshan Ecological Tea Garden is located in Tiandong Village in the northeast of Wencheng County, with an altitude of more than 500 meters. The village's tea garden planting area reaches more than 1,700 acres, making it a veritable "Tea Garden Village".
Elegant Yellow Tea
Don Juan Pingyang
Pingyang Tang Juan Tea is one of the four traditional yellow teas in China and one of the six major yellow teas. It is as famous as Mengding Huangya, Huoshan Huangya and other famous yellow teas. In May 2014, it was selected into the first batch of geographical indications list of agricultural products in 2014 by the Ministry of Agriculture. It stands proudly in the tea world with its "three yellows" characteristics of "dry tea yellow, soup apricot yellow, and tender leaf yellow".
It has a thin and tight shape, yellow-green color, bright apricot-yellow soup color, sharp aroma, fresh taste, and even buds at the bottom of the leaves. In the Qing Dynasty, Tang Juan was regarded as a tribute, and it was famous in the Beijing-Tianjin area, especially among people in the tea industry.
The 10,000-mu tea garden in Chaoyang Mountain in Pingyang, southern Zhejiang, is rated as one of the 30 most beautiful tea gardens in China, with an altitude of about 700 meters. It is rainy and foggy for two-thirds of the year, with abundant water resources and undulating mountain peaks. Pingyang Tanghuang tea trees are planted here
Taishun, relying on the century-old covered bridge culture, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and uses Ounan's unique tea-making technology to create a unique Wenzhou tea-"Covered Bridge" red". "Longqiao Red" is the first black tea for Wenzhou people. Based in Taishun, a green ecological museum, covered by natural mountain springs, every bud and leaf of the tea produced is a natural gift. With its rosy color, full aroma, and simple and clear mountain flavor, it has quickly won many tea tasting competitions in China and is known as the "Covered Bridge in Tea."
It is not interesting to make a cup of "Longqiao Red" in the small teahouse next to the covered bridge and taste the most primitive taste of life.
Cheng Hong
Wencheng County has a long history of tea. As early as the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the tea produced in Nantian Wuyang was listed as a tribute because of its unique production technology and superior quality. The shape of the tea leaves is tight and slender, the body is solid, and the color is ruddy; the mountain aroma is obvious, the soup is yellow and clear, with a halo; the bottom of the cup is fragrant, moist and mellow, and the aroma is long-lasting.
Yandang Mountain Nengren Black Tea
The tea used in "Renhongyun" has one leaf and one bud without a stem. It must be drunk before Qingming Festival. The tea gardens used to make black tea are located at an altitude of more than 500 meters, growing in the unique aromatic lime soil of Yandang Mountain. Combining traditional craftsmanship with modern craftsmanship, it has tight strings, fragrant aroma, bright soup color, sweet taste and even leaf base.
Nengren Village in Yandang Mountain has been an important producing area of ??Yanshan tea since ancient times. In recent years, well-known brands in Zhejiang Province and Wenzhou City such as "Yanshan Longqiu", "Nengren Hongyun" and "Shangyunqing" have emerged in Nengren Village.
In the spring breeze, it is best to drink a cup of spring tea to get drunk.