With the continuous increase in popularity, various discussions related to Pu'er tea have also attracted considerable attention.
In addition to the aroma, taste and texture, the appearance of Pu'er tea is also significantly different from other teas.
Green tea, black tea, etc. are mostly loose teas, and the Pu'er tea on the market is mostly presented in the form of tea cakes, tea bricks, tea tuo, xiaolong beads and so on. Of course, many Pu'er tea franchise stores also sell bulk Qingmao tea.
If you are in terms of the current tasting, it is not impossible to drink qingmao tea directly. But some tea lovers may have similar questions: Pu'er tea is almost all tightly pressed tea, drink loose ingredients, drink real Pu'er tea?
Pu-erh tea definition
Is Qingmao tea Pu'er tea? To clarify this issue, let's first look at the official definition of Pu'er tea:
Tea with unique quality characteristics is made of Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-dried green tea within the scope of geographical indication protection, and using specific processing technology within the scope of geographical indication protection. According to its processing technology and quality characteristics, it is divided into two types: Pu'er tea (raw tea) and Pu'er tea (cooked tea).
It can be seen from the above that Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-dried green tea is the raw material for making Pu'er tea, and does not belong to pu-erh tea in the true sense.
Pu-erh tea making process
According to the processing technology and quality characteristics, Pu'er tea has raw tea and cooked tea; according to the appearance form, Pu'er tea actually has scattered tea and tightly pressed tea, the key is that the loose tea here refers to Pu'er tea cooked tea loose tea.
Looking closely at the processing process of Pu'er tea, the fresh leaves of Yunnan large-leaf tea trees are made of sun-dried green hair tea after spreading, killing, kneading, unblocking, and drying in the sun, which is used as a boundary, and the finening, autoclaving and drying of the green tea is Pu'er raw tea;
If the sun-dried Green Hair Tea continues to ferment in a pile, after the pile is dried and refined, the mature tea loose tea is made, and the loose tea is autoclaved and formed as a cooked tea.
Tightly pressed tea is easier to "age and taste"
Because of the attribute of "the more aged and more fragrant", most pu'er tea pays more attention to the value of later transformation than the current tasting.
Regarding the storage of Pu'er tea, it is said that many articles published by the tea network in the past have repeatedly emphasized the "stability of the small environment".
To this day, Pu'er tea is still mostly in the form of tight pressure, not so much a inheritance, but in order to better realize the core value of "more aged and more fragrant".
The transformation environment inside the pressed tea is more stable than that of loose tea. In contrast, loose tea has a large contact area with air, which on the one hand will lead to excessive escape of tea contained substances, and on the other hand, it will also adsorb moisture or dust in the air, which will affect the quality of tea.
In the new tea period, the overall performance difference between sun-dried green hair tea and tightly pressed tea is not obvious, and as the storage time slowly increases, it is a completely different aroma and taste when drinking.
Therefore, if it is a short-term drink, then it does not matter if you store a small amount of loose tea; if you want to really feel the unique charm of Pu'er tea "the more aged and fragrant", you must choose a high-quality tight-pressed tea collection or tasting.
Comprehensive Pu'er tea definition and production process, unrefined, blended, autoclaved forming of the sun-dried green hair tea, can only be regarded as semi-finished products, can not be called "Pu'er tea". (This article is the original article of the tea network, author: to the summer, say the tea network Sisi)