,000 yuan per pound is Tieguanyin expensive? Is it real material or hype?
If you want to talk about where the tea is the best, China will definitely be the first to bear the brunt of it. As a tea capital and a hometown of ceramics, China has many teas and the tea culture is prosperous. Foreigners drink tea to quench their thirst, and Chinese drink tea is called tea.
There are many varieties of tea in China, with more than 2,000 kinds recorded in names, the most of which is green tea. Six of the four famous teas are green tea, and the most famous one is West Lake Longjing . But there is such a kind of tea that looks like green tea, but it is actually not green tea, that is Tieguanyin.
Tieguanyin's fragrance tea is green, and the brewed tea soup is also yellow-green. No wonder it is considered green tea. In fact, Tieguanyin is called green tea, also known as oolong tea. It is semi-fermented and has a warm and warm nature in the tea leaves, between green tea and black tea. Whether you drink green tea or black tea, you can accept the taste of Tieguanyin, so Tieguanyin can be accepted by tea friends from all over the country. This season, late autumn, is the most suitable for drinking Tieguanyin.
However, Tieguanyin is not cheap at all. A slightly better ration tea costs several hundred yuan. It is normal for a gift of a thousand yuan. It is not easy to buy ordinary tea with good taste in a brand tea shop for 2,000 yuan. At the most glorious time, Tieguanyin had 890,000 yuan per pound of tea, and it cost more than 10,000 yuan per pound. It costs 500 yuan to brew a tea seven times.
is indeed much more expensive than other teas. Is there real material or market hype at such a high price?
Let’s start with the cost of Tieguanyin. Tieguanyin’s process is very complicated, with more than a dozen programs, including: picking green, sun-drying green , cold green, shaking green , fried green , kneading, initial baking, initial packing, re-baking, re-baking, re-baking, and drying. Some processes need to be repeated many times, and every tea brewing is hard-won.
Tea leaves taste very refreshing, but making tea is very tiring. From the tea season, you often can’t sleep for days and nights, and make tea all night long. When the tea season comes, the tea grows very fast, and it is too late for a family to pick tea. If a tea picker needs to ask a tea picker, a tea picker can pick about 20 kilograms of tea green a day, and a daily salary of about 150 yuan is included in food, accommodation and travel expenses. 5 tea pickers are paired with a tea-making chef. The master’s salary is about 400 yuan, and he can make about 20-30 kilograms of raw tea (with tea stems) a day.
From tea green to raw tea, it takes 5 kilograms of tea green to make 1 kilogram of raw tea. If 1 kilogram of raw tea is removed, you can probably leave about 7 taels. The tea leaves that remove tea stems and are called clean tea. When the clean tea is finally packaged and sold, it also has to go through the process of mixing, small bubble packaging, large packaging, etc. Each process requires cost. This way, the cost of a pound of packaged tea is about 100 yuan.
This is just the labor cost of making tea, and it also requires the cost of cultivating tea trees. Tea farmers also need to eat and make money. Tea shops also have the costs of water and electricity operation and tea loss. In addition to profit, it is normal for packaging tea to cost 200 to 300 yuan per pound. Tea with good quality is naturally more expensive. If it is a brand store, it will also add the brand premium and the store decoration environment premium. Tea that costs thousands of yuan is also very ordinary. ,000 yuan is not expensive to buy a pound of Tieguanyin.
No matter how expensive the tea is, it has nothing to do with the tea farmers. The tea leaves sold by tea farmers to tea merchants are all raw tea. The price of raw tea is close to the cost, and tea farmers can only make hard money. If you have good tea farmers, avoiding these twists and turns, you can not only buy good tea, but also save a lot of money. The best tea is always brewed in the tea farmers' homes, and they will treasure the good tea and are reluctant to sell it.
Tea shops cost two or three hundred cheaper, but some online stores sell tea only a few dozen yuan. Can that kind of tea be drunk?
can also be drunk, but the quality will definitely not be good. The reason for the low price is that it uses a lot of machines, and the cost of picking tea, making tea, and picking tea stems will naturally be much lower. The machine has a lot of losses. One pound of stalk tea can only pick out half a pound of clean tea. Fortunately, it is fast and the output is large. Good tea in the production area will not be able to operate with machines. Tea farmers are not stupid and want to sell it at a good price.
Cheap tea leaves, dry tea is loose and light in color, with a lot of broken tea powder, and it is not resistant to brewing, and it will have no taste after brewing for three or four. Of course, it is also possible to use other tea leaves to pretend to be Tieguanyin, such as Benshan, Hairy Crab, Jinguanyin , Jinguan , etc., without the charm of Tieguanyin. Some tea merchants will combine old tea that was not sold out last year and recycle some cost. Cheap tea is not harmful to the body, but it is not good to drink. This kind of tea can be used as a construction site tea to quench thirst, but is not recommended as ration tea.
Before 2010, Tieguanyin was crazy and was indeed hyped very much, otherwise she would not have sold a high price of 890,000 yuan per catty. After 2010, Tieguanyin suffered a Waterloo, and its prices and sales plummeted, and its vitality was severely damaged. Tieguanyin is no longer as crazy as it was 10 years ago. The quality and price are normalized and there is no value for speculation.
capital is not empty either. The current capital is hyping Rock Tea and Pu'er Tea are so busy that they don't have time to deal with Tieguanyin. Tieguanyin is just the best cost-effective time.
