丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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After the cold dew, the autumn mood in Fuzhou is even stronger.
The autumn breeze is a little cool, and it will feel a little cold in the air-conditioned room in the evening.
Turn off the air conditioner, pull open the closed windows, and the cool air burrows into the room, feeling cool for a while.
The wind carries the sweet smell of Fuzhou air, and the body and mind are particularly comfortable.
At that time, I was drinking the 2021 first-class spring shoumei.
When the soup is brewed, the fresh breath lingers around the body, and some of it enters the nasal cavity, circulating and circling.
After a while, the umami taste slowly dissipates in the air, leaving a faint charm.
Peel off the lid while it is hot and smell the incense, the cover is a rich fragrance, but the incense does not stay too long, and then it is the home of the floral fragrance.
The sweet floral fragrance lingers on the lid, and when it smells, it is caught.
Just in the autumn breeze, drink a cup of spring white tea, the mood is comfortable.
Drinking tea, looking through the messages of tea friends, I saw that someone asked: "What should be the performance of really good white tea"?
That's a long story.
Next, take your time for everyone.
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Fresh, is the basis of white tea.
We usually describe the flavor of a white tea, and we will use words such as fresh flavor, freshness, fresh tenderness, deliciousness and so on.
The freshness here is about the aroma of tea and the taste of tea.
Aroma, how can it be fresh? Is this a joke?
Not really.
In fact, we often use the word "fresh" in our daily lives.
For example, the moment the steamed hairy crab opens the lid, the umami smell comes to the nose, and the smell of the aroma feels fresh.
The tea aroma of white tea is fresh, and it has similarities.
Its aroma is ethereal, it is flexible, it is fresh, it is like the immortals on the edge of the sky falling into mortal dust, the fairy wind Dao bone.
The taste is fresh and it is the feeling of the entrance.
The tea soup is fresh in the mouth, just like the freshness of Taimu Mountain, with a slight cool air in the mouth.
Fresh and refreshing tea soup, giving the taste buds is the ultimate enjoyment, is an addictive existence.
Fresh tea and fresh tea soup are the necessary requirements for good tea!
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Incense is the basic quality of good tea.
When tasting good tea, many people will say, this tea is so fragrant.
The reason is that high-quality white tea with excellent quality contains rich aromatic molecules.
You can feel it when you smell it and drink it.
In good white tea, there is a fragrance, a floral fragrance, a bamboo leaf fragrance, a herbal fragrance, a rice dumpling leaf fragrance, a lotus leaf fragrance...
The smell is like the smell of the wilderness, like the smell of wild reeds, wild dog tail grass, wild bracken, very fresh and refreshing.
The floral fragrance level is more abundant, including jasmine, gardenia, Maine flower, seven incense, magnolia flower and so on.
In a cup of tea, you can feel the tea aroma with such a variety of layers.
Herbal incense, with angelica, parsnip, cooked ground and other rhizomes of Traditional Chinese medicine.
There are also the taste of herbal teas such as Mandarin duck vine and houttuynia cordata, which are fresh and elegant and reassuring.
The aroma of rice dumpling leaves is like boiling the sun-dried rice dumpling leaves in water, and the smell emitted is extremely refreshing.
When tasting good white tea, first smell the lid, from the front note to the tail note.
When drinking tea soup, sip a little, and the tea aroma wrapped in tea soup will be stirred up and perceived.
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Alcohol is the basis of good tea.
Alcohol, indicating that the tea soup has a sense of content, it is thick and mellow to drink.
It's like putting it in old wine for many years, and it has a great sense of power.
When you drink the tea soup into your mouth and push the tea soup with your tongue, you can feel a little resistance.
This is the embodiment of the abundant substances contained in the tea soup.
Among the good teas of outstanding quality, it is a must for the tea soup to have a sense of content.
If a certain tea tastes weak and thin as white water, then there must be a problem with the quality of this tea.
It is possible to come from an area with a very poor growing environment, long hours of sunshine, high temperatures, and the inability of tea plants to accumulate rich inclusions.
Reflected in the tea soup, it is contentless, not mellow, and has no pulp feeling.
It is also possible that the process is not good, and there is negligence in withering and drying, resulting in nutrient loss.
White tea, which has lost a lot of nutrients, will feel thin and have no sense of content when drinking.
Or in the process of storage, the tea leaves are spoiled by moisture, and a large amount of nutrients contained in the inside are lost, and it naturally feels bad to drink.
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Refreshing, refreshing, fresh and refreshing, it is the label of white tea.
Drinking the lustrous tea soup into the mouth is hearty and comfortable in the mouth.
The feeling that good tea brings to the mouth is refreshing, not sticky.
What is the feeling of being refreshing? Let me give you a concrete example.
When you eat more greasy food, the mouth will appear more greasy and very unpleasant.
At this time, drinking boiled water can alleviate the discomfort in the mouth, but after a while, the feeling will return to the mouth.
At this time, drinking water does not seem to have much effect.
However, drinking a cup of mint-filled soda at this time will become extremely refreshing in the mouth.
Or, wash your mouth with mouthwash.
The greasy sensation is removed and the inside of the mouth becomes extremely fresh and refreshing.
In fact, the refreshing taste of white tea is similar to that, and it is comfortable to drink in the mouth.
It was like nibbling on a tender cucumber with dew, and the feeling of freshness filled the mouth.
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Clear, clear, fresh and clear, it is a tea soup with taste.
The soup of a good cup of tea is clear and transparent.
Whether it is brewed with shoumei or silver needles, the soup water is crystal clear.
Like an unprocessed, all-natural crystal, it is so pure.
The fine pekoe swayed in the tea soup, looking like a galaxy, like the shining stars in the Milky Way.
Some people at first glance at those pekoe and think that those are impurities, but in fact it is a good thing.
Pekoe is not only a provider of milli fragrance, but also contains rich theanine, which can replenish nutrients for the human body.
The really cloudy tea soup is like a very smog day.
The gray, dusty-looking tea soup is definitely not good tea.
It is either poorly produced, poorly produced, or poorly produced, or has problems with storage.
It is also possible that there are problems in three aspects, and it is not recommended that everyone drink it into the stomach for fear of hurting the body.
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Sweet, sweet and fresh, is the feeling of drinking tea every day.
The sweetness of good tea is not the kind of sweetness that is so sweet that it is greasy, but it is sweet and sweet.
Along with the fresh taste, the sweetness fills the mouth, and soon the mouth is sweet.
In addition to the sweetness of the entrance, the return of sweetness is also very fast.
After swallowing the tea soup, a faint sweetness from the base of the tongue gradually spreads throughout the mouth.
The speed at which this sweetness returns to the mouth is very rapid and intense.
Back in the sweet, there is also a delicate floral fragrance, sweet fragrance full of cheeks, the mouth is very comfortable.
And fresh is the evaluation of tea soup.
Wrapping the tea soup in the mouth, you can feel its agility, and its aroma and taste constantly soothe the mouth.
Sometimes it's like this, and in the blink of an eye, it's changed to something else.
Just like the aroma in the mouth, one will be jasmine, one will be fragrant, the other will be gardenia, and there will be many variations.
This is what it looks like to be agile and full of vitality.
《8》
Usually commonly used, good production area, good process and good storage to describe a good tea.
White tea from the environment suitable for the growth of tea plants, because of the thick conditions, the tea leaves will produce rich nutrients inside.
Tea is rich in nutrients that are given by nature.
In order to retain these precious nutrients, it requires the blessing of the process in place.
Spread the tea thin and dry on a water sieve 70 cm above the ground and sunbathe.
After the end of withering, the water content of the tea leaves is dried until it meets the national standards by means of slow drying over low heat.
The finished white tea can be stored in the appropriate storage method.
For good tea, the production area, process and storage are indispensable.
How good tea tastes, the taste will tell you the answer.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.