As it turned out, the machine-picked tea leaves are very beautiful! Since you can collect the tea leaves such beautifully by a machine, I might not able to tell the difference in taste between the hand-picked and the machine-picked tea. I wonder if there is much advantage on expensive hand picking. What do you think?
By machine picking, you shear the surface of the plants in one stroke and collect the fresh buds and leaves. I thought that it would contain some old stiff leaves and twigs, but I didn’t find any of them in the collected leaves as shown in the picture above. I knew that you trim the surface in the fall and spring to make it even and to prevent mixing the old leaves and twigs when harvesting. But I didn’t know that you can adjust the height of the shearing surface with such great accuracy. That makes a good quality of harvest possible. Now, let’s go back to my question in the beginning. What is the advantage of hand-picked tea? I’ll talk about it on the next post.
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