So how to distinguish alpine tea from hilly plain tea?
First, although they are all Xinyang Maojian tea, they are very different in essence, while hills, plains and Chaoyang have low altitude, small temperature difference, short growth period in Chaoyang, neat growth, thin leaves and easy to make. The fried tea leaves look good, and Mao Feng is big and tidy.
Second, the higher the altitude, the better the quality of tea. However, because of the large temperature difference, low temperature, long growth time and thick leaves, it is easy to make cooking difficult, so the appearance is not very good
1, look
Look at the stripes, look at the colors, look at the soup color.
Shape strip: any tea with too tight, too thin or too small shape is not good tea;
Color: Any dry tea with too green color is not good tea;
Soup color: all turbid tea is not good tea;
Fresh tea leaves are small: that is, fresh leaves with only one bud are twisted too early and too tightly because of the withering of fresh leaves and the failure to grasp the appropriate time between heat dissipation, kneading and heating during frying. This tiny Xinyang Maojian tea has a lot of immature tea juice sticking to the surface of dry tea. When it comes to water, it becomes turbid, astringent, green, astringent and tasteless, and it is unbearable to eat. It's called "Xiao Hundan". This Xinyang Maojian tea is not a good tea.
Step 2 smell
Smell the aroma immediately.
Dry tea smells fragrant, after washing tea smells fragrant, and soup smells fragrant. There must be no strange smell and grass smell. At present, there are many herbal teas on the market, and some teas mislead customers to "smell". Even fragrant tea is ordinary tea. Xinyang Maojian tea has eight kinds of aroma, namely "floral fragrance" and "chestnut fragrance".
The imitation of foreign tea "Maojian" is particularly beautiful in appearance, but it is easy to distinguish from the taste. The soup is green and messy, the aroma is green and bitter, the taste is astringent and hemp, and the leaves are even and thin.
Authentic Xinyang Maojian tea is dark green and bright, with rich aroma, lasting aftertaste, cool and sweet taste, light green leaves and vigorous buds.
Step 3 bubble
Making tea correctly is also a test process to identify the quality of tea. Can't stand 100 degrees of boiling water, and the tea that makes soup after three minutes is not good tea. Good tea must stand boiling water, and soup will be made after three minutes ~ it is still not astringent, bitter, muddy or stale.