Yellow tea can refer to Chinese huángchá (??; ??) and Korean hwangcha (??; ??).
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Chinese huangcha
It is an increasingly rare and expensive variety of tea. The process for making yellow tea is similar to that of green but with an added step of encasing and steaming the tea. This allows the tea to oxidize at a slower rate, producing a far more mellow taste than is found in most green teas [4]; this also gives the leaves a slightly yellow colouring during the drying process. Yellow tea is often placed in the same category with white tea due to its light oxidation. One of the primary aims of making yellow tea is to remove the characteristic grassy smell of green tea while preserving the associated health qualities of green tea. Some have even speculated that yellow tea may be healthier because it is easier on the stomach than green tea.
Varieties
- Junshan Yinzhen (????): from Hunan Province, China is a Silver Needle yellow tea. A Chinese Famous Tea.
- Huoshan Huangya (????): from Mt. Huo, Anhui Province, China.
- Meng Ding Huangya (????): from Mt. Meng, Sichuan Province, China.
- Da Ye Qing (???): from Guangdong Province, China. Literally Big Leaf Green.
- Huang Tang (??): from Zhejiang Province, China. Literally Yellow Broth or Yellow Soup.
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Korean hwangcha
In Korean tea terminology wherein domestic tea is categorized mainly as either green tea (nokcha; ??) or fermented tea (balhyocha; ???) - "fermented" practically meaning "oxidized" with this term - "yellow tea" (hwangcha) is used to denote lightly oxidized balhyocha without implications of processing methods or a result that would qualify the tea as "yellow tea" in the Chinese definition. Unlike Chinese huángchá, Korean hwangcha is made similarly to oolong tea or lightly oxidized black tea, depending on who makes it - the key feature is a noticeable but otherwise relatively low level of oxidation which leaves the resulting tea liquor yellow in color.
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