Huo Shan Yellow Tips Traditional Yellow Tea

Huo Shan Yellow Tips is a high grade yellow tea produced in Huoshan County, Anhui Province, China. Although technically a yellow tea, Huo Shan Yellow Tips has the same refreshing, cleansing sensation as the finest Huangshan Maofeng, ample green tea health properties, yet with the absence of astringency. It is made from tender, slim buds with one or two long, straight, yellowish-green leaves with fine hairs covering the buds and the bottoms of many of the leaves. This superb first flush selection is produced almost like a Maofeng green tea but is lightly oxidised by covering the tea when it is still very warm during processing. The heat converts some of the leaf constituents into simple sugars. This particular step gives a softer, sweeter and much easier taste that is delightfully quenching with more body. The concept of this technique has been millennium old, yet it is only in recent years that really fine tasting products have become available and accessible.The dried leaf has a clean