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Author: Junming
When it comes to Pu'er tea, the first thing that comes to mind is a mountain and a taste, the terminal station of the tea drinker, and so on.
If it comes to the factors that determine the quality of Pu'er tea leaves, it must be the three major elements of raw materials, technology and storage. Today we will talk about the raw materials in these three elements!
Yunnan has rich tea plant resources, especially the ancient tea tree resources sought after by the audience. We will find that when it comes to the raw materials of Pu'er tea, we will not miss these words: "Take Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-dried Qingmao tea as raw material!" Why?
The main reason is that the yunnan large-leaf tea plant varieties have a decisive role in the formation of the unique quality of Pu'er tea. The variety of tea trees plays a role in the formation of the unique quality characteristics of mellow, smooth, thick and sweet pu'er tea, which is the key.
Experiments have shown that the dissolving amount of endoplasm contained in it (such as caffeine, catechins, tea polyphenols, amino acids) and endoplasm during brewing is higher than that of tea plants with general small and medium-leaf species.
The higher the endoplasm content in the tree species, the richer it is (such as amino acids, tea polyphenols and other important compounds. The more favorable it is to the formation of high-quality pu-erh tea.
The amount of endoplasmic content affecting the tea plant is inseparable from the natural conditions for the growth of tea plants!
Different natural climatic conditions such as sunshine, rainfall, and temperature have a significant impact on the accumulation and metabolism of tea plant endoplasm.
In general, if the surface of the environment where tea plants grow receive more solar radiation, it is conducive to the photosynthesis of tea plants and better accumulation of tea endoplasm, such as tea polyphenols.
Studies have shown that light, temperature, and moisture have the following effects on the endoplasm of tea plants:
1. When the intensity of sunlight and the amount of sunlight received by the tea plant are large, the content of amino acids and theanine in the tea leaves will change significantly.
2. Sunlight plays an important role in tea pigment regulation, such as: anthocyanins, chlorophyll and so on.
3, light, temperature will affect the accumulation of polyphenols, the appropriate amount of light, temperature is conducive to the accumulation of polyphenols.
4. Insufficient soil moisture will affect the metabolism of tea plant sugar substances, so that the synthesis and accumulation of polyphenols will be affected.
This is also the reason why the tea plants picked from the shady and yang sides of the same tea garden have different tastes.
Yunnan tea area is mostly distributed in the mountainous hilly areas on both sides of the Lancang River in the cool, humid and hot areas, altitude, geographical location, climate, rainfall, temperature, light, soil and other superior natural conditions have created unique conditions for the growth of tea plants, creating the unique quality characteristics of Pu'er tea.
We have always stressed that a good tea ecological environment must be good because a good ecological environment is conducive to the growth of tea plants and the accumulation of endoplasm.
Good tea should be good raw materials + good technology + good rush; good raw materials should meet several conditions: tea tree species, superior natural conditions, and tree age.
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