Hand-processing Wuyi Yancha

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I thought I’d post a few pictures from our trip to Wuyishan this Spring. They show some of the stages of hand-processing Wuyi Yancha.

It was particularly dry this year, so Master Huang opted to have a kettle constantly boiling in the withering room to increase the humidity in the air and allow the leaves to moisten slightly as they were being bruised and withering.

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