En Shi Yu Lu 恩施玉露
En Shi Yu Lu Green Tea is a traditional Chinese steamed green tea. It is made from fresh leaves with one bud and one leaf or one bud and two leaves with dark green leaves and is steamed. The requirements for the harvesting of Enshi Yulu are very strict. The buds and leaves must be tender and even. The tea strips must be tight and even, tight, round and smooth, bright green in color, even and straight, shaped like pine needles, with white pekoe exposed and green in color. The tea soup is clear and bright, the aroma is high and long-lasting, the taste is fresh and sweet, the bottom of the leaves is tender and bright, and the color is as green as jade. The "three greens": tea green, soup green, and leaf bottom green are its distinctive characteristics.
Since tea species and tea-making methods were introduced from China in the Tang Dynasty, Japan still mainly uses the steamed green tea method to make green tea. Its Gyokuro tea production method is similar to Enshi Gyokuro tea, and the quality is different.