As a representative of spring tea in Jiangnan Tea District, West Lake Longjing has a big reputation and high prices, but the market is also more complicated. After all, as long as you catch the West Lake Longjing, the price will immediately double several times. Huge benefits, so that many people flock to it. A few years ago, some people spent a lot of money to buy but not the authentic West Lake Longjing.
Today, it is the season of spring tea listing, this year, how is the tea market? Hourly news reporters went to the field for covert visits.
The reporter first came to the Jiefang Road Tea Market, and the merchants were busy weighing and packing. Billboards for West Lake Longjing new tea are almost hung in front of their homes, and a few will come forward to take the initiative to solicit business.
The reporter randomly found one and asked: "Is there a West Lake Longjing?" ”
Merchants said there is, the price of 3000 a catty, West Lake Yangmeiling. Then he opened a bag and let the reporter see the picture. The store said that the authentic West Lake Longjing is expensive, and if you want to be cost-effective, you can choose Zhejiang Longjing, that is, green tea produced in other parts of Zhejiang Province, with a price of several hundred yuan a catty.
The reporter said that he wanted to send someone, but the cost was limited, whether he could buy the bid of Zhejiang Longjing to paste the West Lake Longjing. The shop owner waved his hand and said absolutely not, because the tea leaves and tea labels corresponded and could not be casually pasted.
Changed several inquiries, merchants are this meaning, indicating that the West Lake Longjing and Zhejiang Longjing a tea price, buy the corresponding tea, paste the corresponding label, random label is illegal.
Subsequently, the reporter came to the Zhuantang Tea Market, which is also a busy scene.
What is strange is that the reporter almost asked a circle in the market, there is no West Lake Longjing for sale in the Zhuantang market, and the merchants said that the West Lake Longjing production is small, and there is only Zhejiang Longjing at present, and they also recommended to the reporter the Longjing of other production areas, saying that the quality is also very good and the price is affordable. Some merchants also said that if they really want West Lake Longjing, they can take us to the farmer's home to purchase.
The reporter also noticed a detail, many commercial doors originally posted the words "West Lake Longjing", the two words "West Lake" have been erased.
From the perspective of the two major tea markets, the current Hangzhou market is more standardized.
Finally, the reporter returned to the Jiefang Road Tea Market and bought two tea leaves. One is a 125g West Lake Longjing, uniformly packaged and labeled with tea. The other is from Longjing, Zhejiang, songyang.
With two tea leaves, we came to the Planting Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau and found Deputy Director Shen Tujiao to identify them.
Shen Tujiao said that their department is mainly responsible for the management of West Lake Longjing, in order to strengthen the West Lake Longjing tea brand management, standardize the West Lake Longjing tea production and marketing behavior, the Hangzhou Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau and the Hangzhou Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau in January 2020 formulated the "West Lake Longjing Tea Origin Certificate Identification Management Measures", the management is strict, the market is becoming more and more standardized.
The professional appraisal of the institution should be measured from five dimensions: appearance, aroma, taste, liquid bottom and soup color. Ordinary citizens can also be identified by a few simple methods.
First of all, looking at the packaging, the authentic West Lake Longjing is a uniform package, including tea bags, tea labels, boxes, and bags.
The coating of the tea label is scratched, scan the two-dimensional code, enter the 11-digit anti-counterfeiting code number on the tea label, you can query the authenticity.
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Scan the code to be clear
In addition, the tea label has been damaged twice, and after it is pasted, it will be torn off, and the standard will be damaged and cannot be used twice.
In addition to packaging, we can also judge whether it is West Lake Longjing by looking at the tea appearance.
Shen Tujiao took out a standard sample of last year's West Lake Longjing and compared the West Lake Longjing we bought from the market.
First of all, from the appearance point of view, the color of West Lake Longjing is relatively fresh, basically one bud and one leaf to one bud and two leaves, the length is between 2-2.5 cm, and the special grade tea bud is about 2 cm.
In addition, since most of the West Lake Longjing is artificially fried, the leaves are like machine stir-frying
The West Lake Longjing has a fluffy feeling after it is sprinkled
Finally, when you buy, you can make an assessment of the price, according to the cost of fresh leaves at the place of origin at that time, for example, now the cost of fresh leaves in Longjing, West Lake, between 300-700, according to the proportion of 5 pounds of fresh leaves fried 1 kg of dry tea, the cost of tea is at least more than 1500, if it is lower than this price of tea, then it is necessary to keep an eye on it.
Finally, Shen Tujiao also mentioned that if the tea is bought for yourself to drink, Longjing in other production areas of Zhejiang also has a lot of good quality tea, the price is more realistic, and everyone can choose rationally.
Source: Qianjiang Evening News