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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In the tea circle, there are many "one-eyed fake" teas.
With a little experience, you can see the cattiness.
In the eyes of insiders, one of these teas counts as one, and they all look like jokes.
Full of mistakes and jokes.
The teas that are completely fake are comparable to the sand of the Ganges, and there are not many of them.
Previously, I saw someone on the Internet asking for tea.
Q, is this box of century-old court cooked tea true or false?
Seeing the words such as palace tea, some people may wonder, is it not that this is the tea that was previously exclusively for the royal family?
In fact, no, this is just the classification in Pu'er ripe tea.
However, when it comes to a century-old cooked tea, the year label must be false.
Because, Pu'er began to make cooked tea history, full of calculations is only a few decades.
And where did this box of so-called century-old tea come from? It's worth playing.
Similar to centuries-old cooked tea, the following teas that deviate from common sense can be called tea circle 4 do not buy, without any credibility.
《2》
First, yellow bud golden jun eyebrows.
For novices who are new to tea, it is estimated that they will be very confused.
Jin Junmei's name does not have a "gold" word, why can't I buy yellow buds?
Looking at the price, the price of yellow bud golden junmei is mostly not expensive, these cheap tea, even if you buy it, it will not be too much of a loss, right?
Yellow bud golden junmei is a problem in the production area, or a process problem, why is it not worth buying?
Sort out the problems one by one. The top priority is to first figure out, what is the standard shape of Jin Junmei?
With reference to the industry standard specification of Jin Junmei, the following content is clearly and straightforwardly marked:
"On the rope, tight and heavy, sharp and straight, slightly golden."
"In terms of color, gold, yellow and black are moist."
From the experience point of view, as a geographical indication protective product, the authentic paulownia jinjun eyebrow is only "slightly golden", and the bud head as a whole is mainly black, seven points black, three points yellow.
And Jin Junmei, whose buds are all yellow, has not even done a full façade kung fu in terms of counterfeiting, and has no credibility.
As for the price of yellow bud golden junmei, the price is not expensive, and the buyer does not suffer losses.
With such a tea buying mentality, it is easy to step on the pit to pay tuition.
When buying a tea, the starting point is definitely to pursue a good aroma, good taste, and good rhyme.
Just because the price is cheap, it was bought, and it turned out that its tea taste performance was not ideal at all, and after trying it, I didn't want to brew it again, and I could only put it to the expiration to change the taste.
If you do the math, it's even less cost-effective!
Compared with Paulownia Jinjunmei, the yellow bud Jinjunmei is not only not authentic in the production area, but even the tree species is far from the Paulownia vegetable tea.
It is no exaggeration to say that this kind of tea has nothing to do with "Jin Junmei".
There is no jin junmei's elegant and unique tea aroma (floral, fruity, honey intertwined), not to mention the tea flavor is fresh and full, and the aftertaste is long-lasting.
When you admire Jin Junmei, it is such a counterfeit that you buy. Even if you drink tea for ten years, you may not be able to understand what kind of flavor the real Jin Junmei is!
Finally, from the general direction, all flat green tea must be called Longjing; all black tea made of buds will be randomly marked with the name of Jin Junmei.
These tea pirates will affect the reputation of genuine products and are not conducive to the overall situation.
From the perspective of operation, these yellow buds and golden eyebrows are not justified and do not go well.
Instead of clinging to the "Golden Junmei" behind him, he carried out a fake that could not be put on the table.
It is better to stand on its own and appear more authentic.
From the perspective of buying tea, tea friends must not "know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountains" when buying tea.
In doing so, the risk of stepping on the pit is too great!
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Second, all black old white tea.
Within the white tea circle, making old tea is the existence of everyone shouting and beating.
Previously, I gave a tea tasting to a tea friend from a neighboring province.
Tea friends sent pictures in private messages asking, this 2014 Alpine Shoumei tea, smelling stuffy, what is going on?
Click on the picture to see, the old traces are too obvious.
The leaves are black and brown, and the color of the tea stem has approached carbon black.
How can this be the result of natural aging, which is clearly caused by artificial counterfeiting.
After the tea friend listened, he was very depressed.
"Will loose tea also be old, when he bought tea online, in order to avoid those pry inside is full of black old tea, this time specially bought bulk tea ..."
For white tea, aging is never limited to the field of cake tea, and loose tea may also be old.
On the essence of aging, it is through various means to make old counterfeiting, so that the appearance of tea looks full of vicissitudes, and then falsely marked the year, pretending to be stored for many years of old white tea, for huge profits.
To put it simply, old tea is like white tea with specialized old age makeup, and there will be unnatural traces everywhere.
The color is monotonous and the color is dull.
Looking at the overall color of the tea leaves, you can't find a hint of green.
You know, when the tea leaves were first picked, the color was green.
According to the unique way of white tea, after the basic steps such as withering and drying to make tea loose tea, white tea looks like a dehydrated vegetable.
Except for most of the water vapor, the color of the shape has not changed at all.
In the later period, under the standardized storage of light avoidance, sealing, drying and shade, the color of white tea leaves will only change from clusters of new and bright green to dull dark green, warehouse green, dark green and so on.
The base color system remains unchanged, and it will not change from green to black, brown, and coffee. However, the saturation and brightness of the colors have changed.
On the other hand, those old white teas that are black all over, whether it is loose tea or cake tea, are not worth buying!
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Third, the scorched paste taste of the big red robe.
Many new tea friends have a bad impression when they drink Da Hong Pao for the first time.
I think the taste of da hong pao is very strange, somewhat like the smell of leaves being roasted paste. Smell, can not feel the other tea aroma, only the strong smell of burnt paste!
In fact, this is a misunderstanding.
Only the scorched red robe, the quality is extremely poor, not worth starting.
Da Hong Pao has experienced high temperature roasting during processing.
After roasting, in terms of tea aroma, Da Hong Pao can have a unique fire incense.
The essence of these huogong incense is the moving aroma transformed by plant protein under high temperature baking. Including caramel aroma, roasted melon seeds, roasted popcorn, roasted seaweed and so on.
But that doesn't mean that the roasted red robe smells scorched and can be forgiven.
On the contrary, the appearance of the burnt paste taste indicates that this tea is roasted and is a serious process failure.
Taking eating steak as an example, the steak in Western food has three points cooked, five points cooked, seven points cooked, full cooked and other classifications.
The roasting fire of the Da Hong Pao is divided into light fire, medium light fire, medium fire, medium foot fire, and foot fire.
The scorched and heavy red robe, like the roasted meat, has long been out of the normal range of fire power, and it is not recommended to continue to soak and drink.
High-quality Da Hong Pao, the tea aroma is wonderful and moving.
The aroma is dominated by floral, fruity and caramel aromas, which are rich and pleasant.
Brewed to drink, it is more mellow, full of taste, sweet and long-lasting.
From start to finish, there will be no choking burnt smell!
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Fourth, the famous tea in the wholesale market.
In the tea circle, there are many well-known good teas.
Green tea, there are West Lake Longjing, Huangshan Maofeng, Taiping Monkey Kui and so on.
Black tea, the aforementioned "Golden Junmei" belongs to the high-end tea representative, the real Paulownia Jinjunmei, the market price is not cheap, per kilogram is close to 10,000 yuan.
Oolong tea, famous in recent years for its bullpen pit cinnamon, is worth mentioning.
Pu'er, Lao Ban Zhang, Iceland, Yi Wu and other famous mountain tea, many tea customers have heard...
However, when you want to buy these famous, popular and household-name teas, it is not recommended to start with wholesale channels.
Because the 9.9 yuan free shipping jin junmei, cinnamon in the bullpen pit, old ban zhang, etc. sold cheaply in those wholesale markets can be called blatant fraud.
At such a low price, you can never buy the genuine product.
I remember a friend next to me who mentioned that he went to visit his old leader.
As a result, before leaving the door, the other party also handed him two boxes of tea.
Fix your eyes on it, I can't help it, this gift is really too big - bullpen pit cinnamon!
It is estimated that these two whole boxes of tea add up, let alone a pound.
But the leader waved a big hand and let the friend accept it with peace of mind, because, at the value of beef, it is impossible to be taken as a gift by someone in daily human relations.
I think it is also true that the bullpen pit is only a pit that is not wide or narrow in the core production area of the three pits and two streams in the Zhengyan of Wuyi Mountain.
After walking along the main road, the number of mobile steps increased by just over three thousand steps.
The amount of "beef" that can be produced in a year is only about 1500 kilograms, and the amount is extremely limited.
This kind of tea circle is famous and good tea, which is limited in resources, and has been booked a lot early in the morning, and the remaining number in circulation in the market is not much.
Even if there were, it would be far from likely to flow into wholesale markets.
From the perspective of market law, selling high-end good tea cheaply and wholesale is not in line with the pricing law.
This overly cheap well-known tea, there is no half truth to speak of.
If you come here and think that you can drink famous tea at a cheap price, you will only step on a pit.
《6》
At the beginning of the year, I visited a friend's company.
She had just moved into a studio and invited us over for tea.
She was still tidying up when we went, so let's sit down and make tea first.
Unexpectedly, just sat down on the edge of the long table, found two cakes of complete packaged old tea.
There is no sealed bag, only a layer of cake paper is wrapped naked, and the outer layer has the three words "old white tea" that are dangling.
If the tea cake is put like this, it will be too bad for the tea, and it will be damp.
So, quickly stop the friend and let her put it away first.
But according to a friend, this tea does not need to be kept, it was left by the former tenant after moving.
At first, I thought, what kind of person is so generous, even the old tea is willing to throw away when moving.
Later, after taking it apart, it was a typical black old tea.
It is naturally clear in my heart that the old traces of these two cakes of tea are so obvious, it is no wonder that they will be abandoned.
It also proves that when buying tea, don't be obsessed with external gimmicks.
Old age, fame, cheap price, etc., are not "worth buying" reasons.
Good quality, excellent aroma and taste, is the key.
Even if there are more gimmicks, it is only the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, and there is no reality to speak of!
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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.