Tea Knowledge｜Bringing you to understand Jinjunmei

#Jinjunmei ID#

Date of birth: 2005.

Category of tea: black tea.

Origin: Tongmu Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province.

Tea Tree Variety: Local Vegetable Tea.

#Jinjunmei Definition#

The black tea is made from the single buds of the alpine tea trees within 565km of Wuyi Mountain National Nature Reserve centered in Tongmu Village, Xingcun Town, Wuyishan City, and is produced by a unique process of withering, kneading, fermentation, and drying with the quality characteristics of "golden soup, sweet soup, and sweet and sweet through the fragrance. The black tea is characterized by the quality of "golden color, sweetness in the soup, and fragrance in the sweetness".

Only the raw materials picked from the tea buds of the original high mountain tea trees in a specific area of Wuyi Mountain, and only the raw materials of the first spring tea buds, can be called authentic Jinjunmei.

How did Jin Jun Mei come about?

In 2005, Jiang Yuanxun, the 24th generation of Zhengshan Xiaojiao black tea inheritor, led a team to develop a new variety of black tea, named "Jinjunmei".

Jin:It means the first harvested tea before the Qingming Festival, and its price is more than "gold".

Jun:Named after the character "Jun" of the tea maker, Mr. Liang Junde.

Eyebrow:It means longevity, and the shape of the tea leaves resembles eyebrows.

What is so expensive about Jin Jun Mei?

The uniqueness of the ecological environment, the conditions of the nature reserve can not be replicated low yield, authentic Jinjunmei can only be picked within the Wuyi Mountain Nature Reserve special. The designated area of the high mountain ecological tea tree as raw materials, so the annual production is limited extremely laborious, because only with spring tea buds, a catty Jinjunmei need to pick 60,000 -80,000 buds.

Aroma and flavor are extremely vivid, unparalleled enjoyment

What is the relationship between Jinjunmei and Zhengshan Xiaojiao?

Jinjunmei is actually a branch of Zhengshan Xiaojiao.

Jin Jun Mei is the earliest black tea in the world, originating from Tongmu Village. 2005 Jin Jun Mei was created, with all buds plucked, and made based on the Zhengshan Xiao Seed black tea process. It can be said that Jinjunmei is born out of Zhengshan Xiaojiao black tea.

Jinjunmei is covered in gold?

Because of the word "gold", the appearance of Jin Jun Mei is the most misunderstood point. Jinjunmei actually not much hair, the main color is black, slightly with some golden hair, commonly known as "three yellow seven black", all the golden hair tea is mostly counterfeit.

Ordinary people can buy the golden goosebumps?

Money can be bought, Jiang family's Zhengshan Hall and Liang family's Junde Tea are able to give you satisfactory tea, in addition to expensive no problem.

The price of a catty of authentic Jinjunmei is generally not less than five figures. Unless the sky falls pie, or nine nine postal or easily 100 yuan price is basically impossible to buy authentic Jinjunmei.

There are alternatives to not being able to afford authentic Jinjunmei?

Want to choose the core producing areas, if you can not afford to drink authentic Jin Jun Mei, you can also drink silver Jun Mei, small red Gan, and then you can drink large red Gan.

In addition to the core production areas, Wuyishan near the black tea are also good:Looking at the country, as a ration tea there are many other production areas of black tea can choose.

What are Silver Junmei and Copper Junmei?

Because of the high cost of Gold Surplus Eyebrow and the small production, it is difficult to supply the market needs in response to market demand, Silver Surplus Eyebrow and Copper Surplus Eyebrow came into being

Their raw materials are picked at different standards, with different grades and different flavors, and therefore the price difference is also very big:

Gold Surplus Eyebrow:Pure buds.

Yin Junmei one bud and one leaf.

Copper Junmei: one bud and two leaves (the market also split the Copper Junmei, according to the size of the open side of the leaf, divided into small red Gan and large red Gan ).

What is the difference in flavor when the tea from the outer mountains is made according to the Jinjunmei process?

As in the country and abroad to do the Buddha jumping wall, there is certainly a difference in taste.

In different natural environments, the contents of the tea green produced are extremely different. For example, the temperature, light, water, air and soil in Tongmu are very different from those in non-Tongmu areas.

So, the non-Tungi tea green, and the tea green of Tongmu, the tea produced even if the process is the same, the taste is also very different.

Can the outer mountain be called outer mountain Jinjunmei?

Outside the mountain Jinjunmei, is a popular folk saying, not an official term. In the current national standard, there is no such term as "Outer Mountain Jinjunmei". Even if the outer mountain tea green is made according to the Jinjunmei process, it can't be called Jinjunmei tea