I thought about buying some old white tea

In the end I bought old tea

It’s really uncomfortable

I want to buy that old tea Tea merchants can get rid of it quickly

But it is not a long-term solution

Only by equipping yourself with a sharp eye

can you avoid future troubles

Wen Xiaobai

01

Now is the spring white tea season, so I thought I would talk about spring white tea.

Unexpectedly, a tea drinker told Xiaobai his story. After hearing it, he was really angry.

I feel that tea lovers must understand that such bad tea merchants do exist and they must be careful!

The thing is like this: A tea lover bought old white tea from other tea merchants, and ended up buying old white tea that was aged.

When I bought it, it was said that the year of this white tea was 2012, which is about six years ago.

You can imagine the price of six-year-old white tea, but the tea this tea lover has is very dark, which is not the color that normal-year old white tea should have.

So I went to the store to argue, but the store said, if you don’t think the tea tastes good, just take it and make it.

What’s the point? Old tea is just old tea. It doesn’t taste good when brewed, and it doesn’t taste good when brewed either!

Don’t If you don’t believe the tea merchant’s rhetoric, let’s learn from Xiaobai how to distinguish old white tea, and never buy tea from a black-hearted tea merchant again!

02

Speaking of the reason for the existence of aged white tea, it is inseparable from the popular proverb in the white tea industry.

One year of tea, five years of medicine, seven years of treasure.

The longer the white tea is aged, the higher its medicinal value will be, and the price of old white tea will naturally rise accordingly.

Everything in the world is for profit, and those black-hearted businessmen smell the smell of profit and flock to Lao White Tea like dogs.

Old white tea is one of their sinful products.

However, what is fake cannot be true, and what is true cannot be fake. There are ways to deal with such old white tea noobs.

White tea can be distinguished from three aspects: appearance, soup color and aroma.

03

Look at the appearance of white tea

To distinguish the difference between aged white tea and naturally aged white tea, you can start with the appearance, which is also the most intuitive and convenient one. method.

Generally speaking, the color of distressed white tea is very "dead". It looks lifeless and lifeless.

The color is too uniform. At first glance, it does not come from the original color of the plant. It must have been artificially processed.

As for naturally aged white tea, the original color of white tea is different.

So during the aging process, the color of each leaf is different, and the color will be more colorful and natural.

There is an easier way to identify it. Naturally aged white tea usually has yellow flakes on it.

These yellow leaves are leaves with wax on the surface. It is precisely because of this layer of wax that the color changes slowly during the transformation process.

04

Observe the color of the white tea soup

The tea soup brewed from good quality white tea is very clear. You can even see the patterns on the tablecloth through the tea soup. !

The tea soup of naturally aged old white tea will change every time you brew it. It may be apricot yellow at first, and then it will gradually turn to orange yellow.

After boiling, the old white tea will turn bright red, which is a very clean and beautiful color and looks very comfortable.

However, due to artificial processing, the surface of aged white tea has become fragile and eroded.

You can see from the aged white tea leaves after brewing that they are like mud and have no elasticity at all.

The surface structure of such white tea is likely to have been destroyed. During brewing, some residue will filter out and the tea soup will appear very unclean.

If you follow the store's instructions and boil aged white tea like this, the tea soup brewed with the help of boiling water will be even more turbid. How do you drink it?

05

Smell the smell of white tea

The last step is to smell the aroma of white tea. After thinking about it, it was not very safe, so I changed "aroma" to The "smell".

Astute tea drinkers must know that this is the reason for making old white tea, and tea drinkers who know white tea must know that the aroma of white tea is one of the important sources of charm of white tea.

The aroma of naturally transformed white tea will change with the aging time, from the sunlight aroma, reed aroma, lotus leaf aroma, floral aroma, etc. in the new tea period to the honey aroma, osmanthus aroma, woody aroma, etc. Fragrance, medicinal aroma, etc., some white tea cakes can also evolve jujube aroma.

As for the aroma of aged white tea, there is no change.

Some aged white teas may only have a single woody smell, while others may simply have a musty smell.

When the store explained it, he said it was the aroma of old white tea. Tea lovers, don’t believe it!

The pungent musty smell = Chen Xiang, are you kidding me?

With such low-level excuses, do you really think that all tea drinkers are easy to fool?

06

After learning the above three points to identify old white tea, you can deal with unscrupulous merchants.

By the way, tea lovers, have you ever bought aged white tea before?

How did you tell the difference later? You can leave a message and share it with other tea lovers! Novices will also read it.

Also, you must develop a pair of sharp eyes to avoid being deceived by unscrupulous stores.

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