Is there any shortcut to purchasing Pu'er tea ?
Recently, many tea friends asked me if there are any shortcuts for drinking Pu'er tea. If I say no, many tea friends will be very disappointed; and if I say there is, it is actually not very accurate, because there is really no shortcut for many things to take. However, since we are going to talk to you today about how to choose Pu'er tea, we still have to give you some useful information. Today we will talk to you about what you need to pay attention to when choosing Pu'er tea.
First of all, everyone should be clear, that is, their understanding of themselves. What do you like, hate, and are not sensitive to what you are. If you know what you like, you will have a direction to choose tea. Some tea friends like sweet tea soup, some tea friends like the rich taste of the tea soup layer by layer, some tea friends like the fierce and domineering tea flavor, and some tea friends like the soft and thick taste of the tea soup. Of course, a truly good tea must have a balanced quality. But if you really want to find a perfect tea leaf every bit, its only disadvantage may be that it is expensive. Therefore, everyone should be clear about what taste they are not sensitive to, so that they can find their favorite flavors during the selection process while trying to minimize the unpleasant taste in the tea soup. Therefore, when choosing tea, a problem that tea lovers must face is to clearly know their budget so that they can find a tea that suits them.
has clarified what I like, so next, I will talk to my tea friends about how to choose Pu'er tea.
see the origin
First of all, let me introduce to you the characteristics of Pu'er tea in several major production areas of Pu'er . "Meng Haiku, Lincang Shi, Simao Dan (now Pu'er City), Yi Wuruo" Although it is not absolute, there is nothing big problem overall.
Yiwu Tea Tea soup is soft, smooth, smooth and thick, with a sweet taste, full tea aroma, full flower and fruit fragrance, water and fragrance, relatively excellent and balanced. Of course, the only problem is that the price is relatively high.
Menghai tea has a strong aroma, a strong taste, thick tea quality, and a strong tea flavor, but relatively speaking, the bitter taste will be heavier. Of course, the bitter bottom is more obvious than the astringent.
Lincang tea generally has a strong aroma and a sweet taste. The tea flavor is slightly different. The overall soup is thinner and the astringent feeling is heavier. It is more suitable for drinking new tea. If stored for a long time, the later conversion is not very satisfactory. When choosing Lincang tea, in addition to paying attention to the sweetness of the tea soup, tea friends should pay more attention to the strength of the astringent feeling and the speed of astringent transformation.
Simao, as the distribution center of Pu'er tea in history, has made an indelible contribution to the spread of Pu'er tea. Of course, the overall taste of Pu'er tea area is light and astringent, with a soft taste, and the tea flavor is not obvious, and the tea quality is relatively thin. Among them, Jingmaishan Ancient Tea Garden and the royal tribute tea "Qunlu Mountain" are the most famous.
For tea friends who have just drunk Pu'er tea, at the beginning, they generally pay more attention to the aroma and taste. If tea friends like sweet taste and have obvious astringent feeling, you can try more tea from Yiwu ; and if you like sweetness and don't have obvious astringent taste, Lincang tea is also a good choice.
If tea friends pay more attention to tea flavor and are more sensitive to bitter taste, Yiwu tea is more suitable; and if they are not sensitive to bitter taste, Menghai tea is also a good choice.
. If you value later conversion, Menghai Tea will be relatively better than Yiwu Tea.
Look at the appearance
Look at the appearance mainly depends on the ropes, color and integrity.
The formation of is directly related to the variety and preparation method. When tasting, you must have some understanding of the types and production habits of each tea area. It would be better if there are standards.
From the perspective of tea species, such as Qianlu Mountain, Yibang , Huangcaoba, Naka and other tea mountains, large and small leaves are mixed, and small leaves account for a considerable proportion, and the ropes of the finished product will appear tight and thin.
There are many mesophases in the tea mountains such as Jingmai, Hekai, and Youle, so the ropes are also tight and thin. Lao Banzhang, Lao Man'e and others are almost all big leaves, and the ropes will appear fat.
Of course, some tea lovers want to see through tea dry that the tree age is basically unlikely.
In terms of color, new tea is generally dark green. Pu'er, which has been in the past five years, will turn red in the black, and it can become an old tea at this time. Under the same conditions, the purer the color and longer the time to store it, the richer the fragrance and the better the quality.
Completeness: Observe whether the strips of the tea leaf are complete. Good quality Pu'er tea. Even the tea leaves are old and tender. The old leaves are larger, while the tender leaves are thinner, which is clear at a glance at the naked eye. The inferior quality cake may be made of splicing and pressing of a variety of defective products. There is no complete and obvious bar shape at all.
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tea soup
Good tea must be delicious, this is a hard standard. The delicious Pu'er tea will give people a rich and smooth taste, with sweetness and aroma intertwined, and the throat will be warm and comfortable after swallowing. Pu'er tea with unbalanced quality is bitter and has a bad taste, and the tea soup has a clear stimulation when it enters the throat, without a silky and smooth experience. Here, let me tell you several good taste characteristics.
1. Smooth feeling: The tea soup flows through the oral cavity naturally, without a sense of blockage, and is generally comfortable.
2. Heavy feeling: When the tea soup enters the mouth, it has a thick feeling different from boiled water. Of course, this feeling is related to the quality of the tea and its storage time.
3. Tea soup is sweet and moist: This feeling is generally easier for everyone to perceive. Sweet refers to the feeling of tea soup flowing through the tongue coating. It is different from sweetness and the throat will be more moist and not dry.
4. Return to sweetness and produce saliva: The feeling of bitterness and sweetness seen by the tea soup at the mouth, the root of the tongue and throat is not simply sweetness, but the feeling of saliva produced from the bottom of the tongue.
Look at the bottom of the leaf
The Pu'er tea has good quality, the color is consistent, no softness or variegation, the fingers are thick and flexible, and they are very elastic. If the tea leaves are rough and hard, the quality of the tea is generally not very good, and it is most likely that it is Taiwanese tea.
Generally speaking, the base of the new tea is yellow-green, and gradually changes to yellow-maroon color as the years increase. Of course, because of the different storage environments in different places, Guangdong warehouses will generally convert faster than Kunming warehouses, but it will inevitably produce a warehouse smell. Therefore, the color changes in the Guangdong warehouse for tea of the same year look more obvious.
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