Preliminary Screening of New High Aroma Teas

Vegetative teas propagated from more than 30different germplasms were grown on Mountain No.2at the Tea Research Institute,Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2011to 2013.Samples of the Oolong and green teas were produced from their leaves.A blind sensory evaluation was conducted on the tea samples.The result showed that the new Oolong teas,0318Eand 308,scored higher than Huangdan(CK)on both aroma and taste for the 3consecutive years.The aroma of 0318Ewas 2.6,and that of 308 3.0,higher than the control on the score with a statistic significance.The aroma of 0314Cscored 3.2higher than Fudingdabaicha,but not statistically significant.