There are 6 types.

1. Raw Puerh Tea and Ripe Puerh Tea

Raw Puerh is fresh tea leaves picked and aged in a natural way, without going through the fermentation process of Ovodan, known as raw tea. Its tea nature is stronger and more stimulating. Raw tea that is freshly made or aged for a short period of time has a strong bitter and astringent flavor, and the soup color is lighter or yellowish-green.

Ripe Puerh tea is Puerh tea in the production process after the Wolpui fermentation, so that the tea tends to be mild, known as ripe tea. 1973 Menghai Tea Factory and Kunming Tea Factory joint development of the Wolpui fermentation method after the success of the tea bricks produced by the Kunming Tea Factory because of its tea broth golden and moist, ginseng jujube flavor is strong, and is highly valued by the people of the Puerh Tea.

2, loose tea and tightly pressed tea

Puerh loose tea did not go through the gravity of the tightly pressed, was not pressed into a special shape, still maintains its tea leaves originally scattered leaf shape, conducive to the first acquaintance with the Puerh people to carefully observe the appearance of the leaves, color and lustre, easy to touch the leaves, feel the feel of the Puerh tea leaves.

Pressure tea is Puerh tea in the production process after gravity pressure into certain shapes, such as round shape (Menghai Daiyi brand seven cake tea), different sizes of Tuo type (Xiaguan Tuo tea), square tea (Yunnan Tea Factory's square tea), brick tea (Yunnan Livestock Import and Export Corporation's Puerh brick tea).

3. Dry Warehouse Puerh and Wet Warehouse Puerh

Dry Warehouse Puerh is Puerh that has been left to ferment in a dry environment. High-quality pu-er is always carefully stored in a dry and ventilated environment during its fermentation and natural aging process, which is the only way to ensure the hygienic quality of the pu-er and ensure that there is no mold.

Wet Puerh is a type of Puerh that has been aged in a humid environment and fermented. Wet storage pu-er is usually kept in a closed kiln to accelerate fermentation.

Expanded Information

1, whether after a long period of natural mellowing or artificial fermentation process of Puerh tea products, the purpose is to let the sun green tea bitter and astringent strong flavor convergence, the miscellaneous flavor dispersion, transformed into a bright, mellow, sweet and smooth, warm and pure fragrance of the excellent Puerh tea products.

2, Puerh loose tea level in accordance with the level of young to coarse old, roughly divided into: Palace Puerh, gift tea, special, first, third, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth.

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