PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a bottled green tea drink which has excellent flavor intrinsic to green tea and hardly causes occurrence of turbidity, sedimentation, aggregation, dreg, or floc during a long-term storage.SOLUTION: The manufacturing method includes the steps of: a) plucking raw leaves during a period from a time when a time period (T3) from a time-lapse (T1) from sunrise excluding a rain fall period (T2) reaches 420 minutes to a later time until 24 hour of the date of the sunrise b) processing the plucked raw leaves into unrefined tea c) processing the obtained unrefined tea into finished tea and d) contacting the obtained finished tea with a solvent.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】緑茶本来の香味に優れ、かつ、長期間の保存中のおいても混濁や沈殿、凝集、オリ、フロックなどが生成しにくい容器詰め緑茶飲料の製造方法を提供すること。【解決手段】a)日の出からの経過時間(T1)より、その経過時間中の降水時間(T2)を減じた時間(T3)が420分となる時刻から、当該時刻以降であり、かつ前記日の出当日の24時までの間に生葉を摘採する摘採工程、b)摘採した生葉を加工して荒茶とする工程、c)得られた荒茶を加工して仕上茶とする工程、及びd)得られた仕上茶に溶媒を接触させる工程、を含む方法を用いる。【選択図】なし
