Nonpareil Ming Qian Meng Ding Gan Lu Green Tea

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There is a tea in Mt. Mengding located in Ya’an, Sichuan. It is named Meng Ding Gan Lu because of its sweet and silky flavor. It is an ancient famous tea in China. Well-selected the fresh and tender tea buds in the early spring, and being made after the making process of “three-time fried, three-time rolling” and so on. The finished tea is aromatic, the leaves are tender, and the liquid is yellowish-green without color-changing even after a long time brewing. The taste of Meng Ding Gan Lu is sweet and refreshing, it is richer and mellower compared with other green teas. Smell carefully, you’ll notice a delighted candy sweet lingering in our cups or tea pitcher.

About picking standards and making process
The raw material of TeaVivre’s Meng Ding Gan Lu is all about 1.2cm tea buds. Careful friends may notice that the wet leaves does not all look like a single bud, and the reason is to start with the making process of this tea. From the previous part we mentioned an important process “three-time fried, three-time rolling”, which means to pan fried the tea leaves for three time and rolling for three times. Generally, after removing part of the moisture content after the first time Sha Qing, the first time rolling will be carried out to make the leaves have a preliminary curling shape; Then will be the second frying and rolling, the tea leaves will be more curly and some white pekoe will appear during this period; The purpose of the next third time frying and rolling is to continue to reduce the moisture content in the leaves and form the final tightly curled shape, fine and well-proportioned and full of pekoe. During these process, some of the originally plump tea buds will be peeled off due to the external force of rolling and become clusters like flowers. That’s why the wet leaves are not only single buds but mostly the flower-like tea buds.

To summarize, the manufacture of Meng Ding Gan Lu not only takes a long time, but it also necessitates highly precise temperature and strength control during each process. An excellent cup of tea requires decades of tea-making skills.