Black Tea

Both green tea and black tea come from the leaves of the plant Camellia sinensis ; however the processings that the leaves undergo to make the final tea are different. The leaves for black tea are fully oxidised while those for green teas are lightly steamed before being dried.

What is the difference between green and black tea?

Tea has a long storage life of 18 months or more provided that proper transport and storage conditions are maintained. However, this does not apply to aromatized teas.

Storage

Application: Daily drink.

Crop: April to November, all year round supply ability

Production: 70.000MT/ year/ all grades

 

The leaf grades result exclusively from the last stage of production and the sorting stage. There are 4 basic groups of orthodox production: Leaf, Broken, Fannings and Dust. These categories specify and indicate the different leaf sizes and associated strengths.

Tea grading and markings

Upexim Hanoi now almost exploits material from Northern provinces. Our main markets are South Asia, Middle East and EU.

Native tea breed includes 2 kinds: Midland and Shan which can make green tea and black tea, especially mountainous Shan breed has buds of a lot of white naps desired by the world market.

Vietnam locates in Asean monsoon region, the land of tea plants. Climate, land is suitable for the development of tea plants. A giant rainfall is 1,700-2,000 mm/year. Temperature is at 21-22.60, humidity at 80-85%. Land for growing tea plants consist  of 2 kinds of fat schit and basalt. Tea plants grown in parallel of latitude of B11,5-22,50, dividing in to 2 regions: low region at under 300m, middle region at 300-600m, high region at over 1,000m, hence the teas quality is quite good.

After 1945, the State began building State-run farms and agricultural co-operatives for growing tea, OTD black tea was exported to Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and green tea exported to China. To the end of 2002, total area of tea growing land was 108,000 hectares in which 87,000 hectares is for business tea. Total quantity of finished tea product was 98,000 tons in which export tea rate accounts for 72,000 tons equivalent to USD 82 million.

Besides two kinds of tea mentioned above, 2 other new kinds of industrial teas had been born: OTD traditional technological black tea and Chinese dried green tea. Great tea plantations  of Capitalism of France with modern technology started to develop. Vietnamese people manufacture green tea in household and small plantations. Black tea was exported to West Europe while green tea is mostly sold to North Africa. Total countrys tea growing area was 13,305 hectares with the output of 6,000 tons of dry tea per year.

Tea plants appeared  a long time ago under 2 forms:
-  Household garden tea: fresh tea leaves in Red River Delta in Ha dong town, hill tea in Nghe An province.
-  Mountainous forest tea: the brown tea fermented a half as regions of Ha Giang,Thai Nguyen, Bac Ha...

Brief info

English: Tea
Scientific: Camellia sinensis
CN/HS number *: 0902 ff.

Black Tea
- Specifications:
+ All grade: Black tea OP; FBOP; P; PS; BPS; F; D
+ Both OTD and CTC type