The Probert Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink

GUNPOWDER TEA

Gunpowder tea is a fine variety of green tea (often from China), each leaf of which is rolled into a pellet. Most Gunpowder tea is produced in Pingshui in Zheijian Province, China. After it has been withered it is steamed and rolled into small pellets without breaking the veins in the tea leaves. These are then dried. The pellets look remarkably like gunshot or gunpowder giving the tea its name. It produces a soft honey or coppery liquor with a herby smooth light taste.
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