There are thousands of varieties of Fujian tea, which can be roughly divided into five major types of tea. Each type of tea has its own head of the family. Like the representatives of Da Hong Pao and Tie Guanyin in Oolong Tea, the White Silver Needle in White Tea and so on. But regarding Fujian black tea, we often can't say which kind of tea best represents Fujian black tea. In the dispute over the crown of black tea, it is mainly divided into two factions: that is, the small breed faction represented by the Zhengshan small species and the Gongfu tea faction led by Tanyang Gongfu. So which of these two teas is better?
1. Honors
Zhengshan small varieties and Tanyang Gongfu are well-known black tea varieties in China. Zhengshan small species is not only extremely wide in China, but also popular in foreign countries. Even as early as the Victorian period in the United Kingdom, zhengshan small seeds were included in the British royal family as a royal special tea, enjoying high praise. Tanyang Gongfu also does not know much, as Fujian as the first of the three famous Gongfu black tea, as early as the 20th century, the taste of Tanyang Gongfu is well known to the public, in the Panama International Exhibition Tanyang Gongfu is on behalf of the highest level of China's tea ceremony to attend this exhibition. Each focuses on the former focusing on foreign countries, while the latter is more domestic.
2. Tea soup tea flavor
Zhengshan small species is more resistant to bubbles than Tanyang Gongfu. Due to its own unique processing technology, in the Zhengshan small seed brewed tea soup will often have a light guiyuan juice taste, the whole tea soup color Ujin, tea soup flavor rich, the first drink has a faint sour taste, followed by a light guiyuan soup feeling followed by a rich taste of classic black tea taste. The whole tasting process is like experiencing the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty of life. As the most classic black tea, Tanyang Gongfu is bright and clear, the tea does not contain a trace of impurity, and the tea aroma in the tea soup is like smoke that quietly drills into people's nostrils, refreshing people's spleen. The taste of the tea soup is delicious and refreshing, and behind the faint and bitter tea taste is a fresh sweetness.
3. Value for money
Zhengshan small seeds are made of special pine needles, on the basis of the original tea leaves to add their own unique flavor, in the taste of Zhengshan small seeds, people in the taste of pure flavor of tea, often the corners of the mouth will stay a unique light fruity aroma. Therefore, the price of Zhengshan small species in the market is generally more expensive. And for Tanyang Gongfu. This is a kind of black tea that has always been underestimated by people, tanyang gongfu is a model in classic black tea, the taste is rich and pure, bitter and sweet. At present, the price of Tanyang Gongfu in circulation on the market is also more reasonable. Therefore, from this point of view alone, Tanyang Gongfu is more suitable for tasting with some novices who are just getting started with black tea, so that they can taste the most classic black tea flavor. The Zhengshan small species is more suitable for people who have a certain understanding of black tea to eat.
Combined with the above, in my opinion, Zhengshan small seeds are more suitable for people with a certain foundation in black tea drinking to taste, while Tanyang Gongfu is more inclined to taste people who have just entered the black tea doorway. The focus of the two teas is not the same, but there is no good or bad distinction.