What is Osmanthus Tea?
Osmanthus Tea is a type of Chinese tea made by blending green tea leaves with dried osmanthus flowers. Osmanthus flowers are known for their sweet, fruity fragrance and are often used in traditional Chinese medicine to promote relaxation and calmness. The tea has a light and refreshing taste with a sweet floral aroma and is commonly served as a dessert tea. It is also said to have health benefits, such as improving digestion and reducing stress. Golden Osmanthus Tea is a popular beverage in China and is often served as a welcome drink to guests.
How to make Osmanthus Tea?
Osmanthus Tea is a rare and expensive flower tea made by blending refined tea leaves with fresh osmanthus flowers. It has a strong and long-lasting aroma, a bright green color, and is beloved by consumers.
1. Raw material ratio: Generally, 50 kilograms of refined tea leaves are used with 15 kilograms of fresh osmanthus flowers, which can be appropriately adjusted according to the grade of flower tea.
2. Preparation of tea leaves: Fresh and tender tea leaves with one bud and two leaves are selected as raw materials and processed into green tea leaves using the new tea-making technology of "high-temperature fixing, rapid rolling and safe drying". The tea leaves should be tender and young with tight strands, a fragrant aroma, and a water content of less than 5%, and can be blended with osmanthus flowers when the temperature is cooled to 26-30℃. Alternatively, refined green tea can also be used and blended with osmanthus flowers when heated to 30℃.
3. Osmanthus flower picking: During the blooming period of osmanthus flowers, they are picked when the buds form a tiger claw shape, turn golden yellow, and begin to bloom. They should be carefully picked, gently placed, and quickly transported without using bamboo sticks to avoid bruising and redness. The flowers should be promptly removed from the stems, leaves and other debris and blended with the tea leaves. There are many varieties of osmanthus flowers, including Golden Osmanthus, Silver Osmanthus, Red Osmanthus, Four Seasons Osmanthus, and Monthly Osmanthus, among which Golden Osmanthus has the most strong and lasting fragrance and the best quality.
4. Blending tea leaves and flowers: Firstly, a layer of tea leaves is laid on a clean bamboo mat or white cloth, followed by a layer of osmanthus flowers, the ratio of which should be evenly distributed according to the raw material ratio. Repeat the layering process until the topmost layer is tea leaves that cover the entire pile. If the indoor temperature is below 20℃, the tea pile is covered with a white cloth to maintain a stable temperature and promote the normal fragrance emission of the fresh flowers. If there are fewer osmanthus flowers, tea leaves, and flowers can be blended in a wooden box or other containers.
5. Cooling and airing: After the tea leaves are blended with the osmanthus flowers for 2-3 hours when the temperature of the tea pile rises to 40℃, the pile is opened, turned over once, and aired. With a temperature drop to below 30℃, a second round of blending is conducted to ensure the tea leaves uniformly absorb the floral fragrance.
6. Flower debris screening: When the osmanthus flowers have wilted and turned purple-red, and the tea leaves become soft and don't stick to the hand, the blending process is ended. The tea pile is opened, and the flower debris is screened and dried for later inclusion in the tea.
7. Secondary drying: During the process of blending and absorbing the osmanthus flowers' fragrance, the tea leaves absorb substantial moisture, with water content reaching up to 15%. It is necessary to dry them again shortly to reduce the water content to around 5% and prevent mold.
8. Packaging and storage: After drying, Golden Osmanthus Tea naturally cools for 24 hours, is sealed in carefully crafted paper and composite film bags according to weights, and then packed into paper boxes for market distribution or storage in dry, ventilated rooms. Attention should be paid to preventing moisture, mold, and preventing rodent damage, with a storage period of no more than one year.
Why it’s worth giving it a try?
The benefits of Osmanthus Tea include warming and tonifying yang, whitening skin, eliminating toxins from the body, relieving cough and phlegm, and nourishing and moisturizing the lungs. The function of Osmanthus Tea is to soothe the mind, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, purify the body and mind, and balance the nervous system.
Osmanthus Tea has the effect of warming and tonifying yang.
It is used to treat high blood pressure caused by a deficiency of yang. Symptoms include dizziness, headaches, lower back pain, aversion to cold and cold extremities, loose stools, frequent urination, pale tongue with a white coating, and a thin, deep pulse.
Osmanthus Tea can also prevent and treat bad breath, unclear vision, hives, duodenal ulcers, and cold stomach and stomach pain.
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