Huang Zicheng, a tea farmer in Ilan, produced pineapple fragrant red jade black tea and won the honor of three stars in the world.

Huang Zicheng, a tea farmer in Sanxing Township, recently took part in Belgium's international flavor and quality evaluation with his own "pineapple red jade", which was favored by the judges because of his unique aroma and delicate taste, and won the highest three star medals, the Ilan county government said today.

The county government said that the Belgian International Flavor and quality Evaluation Institute (International Taste Institute,iTQi), known as "Michelin in the food industry", recently announced the results of the 2021 evaluation. Huang Zicheng, a green farmer in Sanxing Township, Ilan County, took part in the evaluation with the "pineapple fragrant red jade" produced by his own Huangji tea factory, and won the honor of three stars in the highest international flavor quality evaluation.

Yesterday, Chang Lin Zimiao of Yilan County went to the Huangji Tea Factory to congratulate and recommend world-class good tea to the people all over the country. The county government pointed out that the evaluation team of this international evaluation is composed of more than 20 national well-known chefs and is scored in the form of a "blind test" for comprehensive performance scores such as first impression, vision, smell, taste, texture and aftertaste. In addition, Huang Zicheng was honored as the second Organic Tea King of Yilan County in 2018 because of his excellent tea-making skills.

Samsung township head Li Zhiyong also went to the Huangji tea factory today to present a plaque to congratulate him. Li Zhiyong said that Huang Zicheng, 41, a second generation of tea makers, has been making tea with his father Huang Renlai for more than 10 years. The tea garden is located in the mountainous area of Changfan Lake, Sanxing Township, covering an area of about 2 hectares. It is planted in a friendly way, of which 0.15 hectares are organically certified.

He said that in recent years, Huangji Tea Factory has been committed to innovating tea-making technology and planting Taiwan Tea No. 18 (red jade variety), challenging black tea grown by fewer people in Ilan. Slowly study and produce three-star local flavor tea with pineapple, sugar cane, honey and other flavors.

Huang Zicheng says that black tea has been grown at home for many years, and tea production does not add any additives. Through the control of fermentation time and degree and the adjustment of the production process, the original bottom rhyme of tea leaves can be emitted to add fruit flavor. He was pleasantly surprised to get three stars this time, and his past efforts were not in vain.

Huang Zicheng said that through his own technology, he hopes to make good tea belonging to Ilan, so that the tea leaves have different characteristics, and tourists can drink good tea when they come to Ilan.