How To Make Yellow Tea

Hi, I'm Jemma Swallow from The Tea Box in Richmond, Surrey. I'm a tea sommelier at the specialist tea house where we serve and sell around fifty loose leaf teas. We also do corporate tea tastings and public tea tastings.

Today, I'm going to show you the variety of teas that we sell here at the shop. I'm now going to show you how to make a Yellow tea. Yellow tea is a very rare form of tea.

It's similar to a green tea but it has a lot more nutrients in it. It has a sort of graceful, sappy, hazel sweetness about it. It's grown on the yellow mountain in China which gives it its name.

And here you can see, it's slightly a yellowy, greenish color. I put a scoop like that in my pot. It's quite a large leaf, and add 80 degrees hot water to it and it probably takes about three or four minutes to infuse.

And there we are, we'll just leave that like that for about four minutes. The Yellow tea that is produced is more fermented than green tea so hence it actually contains more antioxidants, catechins and polyphenols than green tea. And now, I've waited four minutes for my yellow tea, I can now pour it to enjoy its lovely yellow liquor.

And that's how you make Yellow tea. .