There are a wide variety of tea on the market. Therefore, how to choose and buy tea leaves has become the first thing that people need to do. Generally speaking, the selection of tea mainly from the vision, smell, taste and touch to identify the selection. Good tea is much more prominent than ordinary tea leaves in these aspects. In general, buying tea can start from the following five elements of high quality tea
1. Appearance
Choose and buy tea, should see its appearance how above all. Tea with a good shape tends to be better, while those with breaks are worse. The tea can be placed on the plate, so that the tea in the action of the rotating force according to the shape, size, weight, thickness, fragmentation to form the order of stratification.
The thick ones are in the upper layer, the tight and heavy ones are concentrated in the middle layer, and the broken and small ones are deposited in the lowest layer. All tea types are better than middle-level tea. The upper layer usually has many thick old leaves, with light taste and lighter water color; the lower layer has more broken tea, and often has a dark taste after brewing.
In addition to the appearance of the broken, but also need to pay attention to the tea cable how.
General long tea, look at the tight, straight, strong and thin,
Round flat, light;
Round tea to see the grain of elastic, even, light, empty;
Flat tea looks smooth and smooth degree. Like speaking, the tight rope, heavy bones, indicating that the raw materials are tender, excellent workmanship, good quality. If the rope is loose, the particles are loose, the leaves are rough, and the bones are light, it is not a good tea, such tea also try not to buy.
Each tea has a different shape, aroma, color, flavor and flavor
All kinds of tea have specific appearance characteristics, some like silver needles, some like melon seeds, some like round beads, some like sparrow tongue, some leaves loose bubble, some leaves tight knot. Famous tea has its own unique shape, such as the appearance of the meridian fairy is characterized by micro flat, straight.
In addition to these two methods, you can also judge the good tea by clarity. Tea with good clarity does not contain any inclusion, such as tea slices, tea stalks, tea ends, tea seeds and bamboo chips, wood chips, lime, sediment and other things mixed in the production process.
It is not difficult to judge tea according to the appearance, as long as the right amount of dried tea is placed in the palm of your hand, it can be judged by naked eye observation and feeling. In addition, when grabbing tea, do not forget to see if it contains impurities.
2. Aroma
Aroma is the soul of tea, no matter what kind of tea, it has its own unique fragrance. For example, green tea is fragrant, black tea is slightly caramel fragrance, oolong tea has a unique ripe fruit fragrance, and scented tea has a strong aroma of floral fragrance and tea fragrance.
When we buy tea, we can judge it according to the aroma strength of dry tea, the purity and durability of dry tea. For example, holding tea in hand, close to the nose gently smell, generally speaking, with those strong, fresh, pure, lasting and no smell of tea is better. If the tea has mildew, smoke and ripe taste are low quality tea.
In addition to smelling the aroma of dry tea, if allowed, try it before buying it. Brebrewed dishes, the aroma is better fragrant, with the unique fragrance of all kinds of tea, easier to identify.
3. Color
All kinds of tea have different colors, but in any case, good tea has the characteristics of bright luster, oily and fresh. Therefore, we can identify the quality of the tea according to the color. In general, green tea is green and fresh, black and oily, oolong tea is green and brown, dark tea is black and oily, and so on. All kinds of tea showing this color are often excellent. And those with different colors, different shades or dark but no light tea, indicating that the raw materials are different from old and tender, rough workmanship, poor quality.
The color of tea is related to many aspects, such as the tenderness of raw materials, tea varieties, tea garden conditions for picking, processing technology and so on. Such as high mountain green tea, green color and slightly yellow, fresh and bright, low camellia or flat tea with dark green color and light. If the process is not uniform, it will cause the tea luster is uneven and irregular. However, the production process is poor, even if the tender tea buds will become thick and dark.
In addition to the color of dry tea, we can also distinguish the quality of tea according to the different color of the soup. The tea soup of good tea must be bright and clear, and with a certain brightness, and the tea soup of bad tea often has sediment, and the soup color is cloudy. As long as we remember the color characteristics of different kinds of good tea, I believe that it is not difficult to choose high-quality tea.
4. Taste
Different types of tea, their own taste is also different, so the screening standards are often different. However, the good taste of all teas is generally the same, for example: green tea tea is fresh and mellow, slightly astringent at first taste and sweet taste; black tea tea is fresh and sweet, fragrant flowers. Although there are many kinds of tea, they are all the good tea with less bitter, smooth, mellow and fragrant taste, and those with heavy bitter taste, old taste or heavy fire taste are the secondary products.
Drink a mouthful of tea gently, close your eyes, the taste of fine tea, let the tea fragrance melt in the lips and teeth, between, or mellow, or sweet, or lubrication, or delicate, I believe that the common characteristics of each kind of good tea, is endless aftertaste.
5. lingering charm
The so-called charm is not only the taste of tea so simple, but a rich connotation and implicit interest. From ancient times to the present, famous calligraphers, princes and common people have all praised the taste of tea. Whether it is elegant tea poetry, or popular tea customs, all contain people's deep feeling for tea. Taste a mouthful of tea, suddenly sweet tongue, and then taste, feel relaxed and happy. Until after drinking the cup of tea, the charm is like lingering lingering, a long time not to go, like a fairy. As if life is turned into the fragrance of tea juice, bitter sweet, really beautiful.
No matter what kind of tea, you can use the five elements of high quality tea to identify the advantages and disadvantages. As long as we often deal with tea, in the appearance, aroma, color, taste, flavor of more efforts, I believe that we will choose a good tea.
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