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丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Occasionally he would sit by the window and drink tea.
Watch the people coming and going outside the window, and watch the sun rise in the east and set in the west.
A glass, separating the two worlds, while bustling and bustling, on the other hand, quiet and peaceful.
When the sun sets, there is often a mother and daughter, arm in arm, coming from the other side of the road.
The daughter, who was in her youth, took the arm of her middle-aged mother, laughed while talking, passed by the window, and then gradually disappeared.
One is delicate and tender, one is mature and graceful.
Similar eyebrows, different charms.
Looking at them, I can't help but wonder, was that middle-aged woman once a flower-like girl?
And that wonderful young girl, one day in the future, will not also lead her daughter to pass by the window?
The years are amazing.
Time is a magical magician with a magic pen that can change everything.
It depicts different characteristics as new white tea and old white tea.
In the tea circle, the contrast between new white tea and old white tea has never stopped.
From the color to the aroma, from the soup to the taste.
I came across a question from a tea friend:
"Old white tea has a medicinal aroma, but what about new white tea?" Is there also a medicinal fragrance? ”
Very interesting question.
Yes, the new white tea, also has a medicinal fragrance.
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Whether it is new white tea or old white tea, it has a medicinal aroma.
Medicinal fragrance is one of the common aroma types of white tea.
It's not the smell of Western medicine, chemical, artificial agents.
It is like a plant herb, a natural, raw medicinal taste.
Old white tea, often with medicinal aroma, is recognized by most tea friends.
When boiling water is poured into the lid bowl, the dry tea is infiltrated, and the endoplasm is released, there is a chance to smell the medicinal aroma of the tea soup or the lid incense with the help of high temperature.
Different old white teas, the timing of the burst of medicinal fragrance is different.
The level and variation of the fragrance is also different.
But that feeling of somber simplicity is the same.
But some tea lovers do not know that in fact, the new white tea also has medicinal aromas.
It's just that unlike the old white tea, the medicinal aroma of the new white tea is similar to the taste of herbal tea.
Different stages of white tea, they emit different medicinal aromas.
The new white tea, its medicinal aroma, is the same as its age, fresh, fresh, with the breath of fresh plants.
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The medicinal aroma of new white tea is the same aroma as summer herbal tea.
It is a large pot of roots and leaves boiled together, and the fragrance of Mandarin duck vine, houttuynia cordata, summer dry grass, hundred flowers snake tongue grass, perilla, dandelion, Qingming grass.
It is an herbal medicine commonly used when brewing herbal tea, and the cool taste emitted by it is emitted.
Every hot summer, the kitchens of every household in Fuzhou are filled with the smell of seasonality.
When you come home in a heat, the first thing you do is pour a cup.
After drinking it, the heat dissipates, from the tip of the tongue to the throat, from the mouth to the heart and lungs, it is a cool and comfortable feeling.
The medicinal aroma in the new white tea is very familiar to Hu Jianren, and when it smells, it can be associated with the summer in his hometown.
It doesn't matter if the tea friends in the north have not drunk herbal tea, buy a jar of a certain old ji, smell it, and the taste is also very close to the medicinal aroma in the new white tea.
Different categories of new white tea, the medicinal aroma it presents, is also different.
On the new Shoumei body, the medicinal fragrance is more pronounced, thick, clear, and cool as ice.
On the new silver needle and the new peony, it is relatively light, delicate, slight, and will be ignored if you are not careful.
Therefore, many people will think that only Shoumei has medicinal fragrance.
In fact, silver needles and peonies will also have medicinal fragrances, but they just need to be carefully felt.
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The medicinal aroma of old white tea is the aroma of rhizome Chinese medicine.
New white tea, after more than three years of aging, can be considered old white tea.
At this time, white tea, after years, has a different style compared with its youth self.
The medicinal aroma of the old white tea has also changed the "small freshness" of the new white tea and changed it to the medicinal aroma of woody Chinese medicine.
Rich, somber, like the poetry of Du Gongbu.
Smelling the medicinal aroma of old white tea is like walking into a Chinese medicine shop.
Inside, there are angelica, windproof, eucommia, cooked land, and Xinyi.
Between the breaths, between the nose and lips are a lush and thick medicinal fragrance.
The smell is not bitter, but fragrant and comfortable.
It is a more mature taste that has been precipitated after a long time.
Interestingly, in the new white tea period, the medicinal fragrance was stronger in the new shoumei, and the new peony and the new silver needle were weaker.
However, in the old white tea period, the medicinal fragrance emitted by the old silver needle and white peony was as rich as substance.
In a certain number of punches, it will even cover the floral fragrance and occupy the C position protagonist.
And the medicinal fragrance of Lao Shoumei, although it is also rich, although it is also intoxicating, but it rarely covers the floral fragrance and Chen fragrance.
Most of the time, in the tea aroma and tea soup of Lao Shoumei, the floral fragrance, medicinal thread, Chen xiang, three legs stand tall, and the three parties coexist.
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The medicinal aroma of new white tea, what does it feel like to drink?
When I drank the 2021 new white tea last year, I could feel the cool herbal aroma in many new teas.
In 2021, the first-class white silver needle, medicinal incense appeared in the tail notes of the first few covers.
When the lid is slightly cool, you can smell the rich, sun-dried grass and trees.
The aroma of summer herbal tea flutters from the cover and smells cool and pleasant.
2021 Peony King, medicinal fragrance hidden behind floral fragrance and milli fragrance.
The same is in the tail note of the cover incense, but unlike the 2021 first-class white silver needle, the medicinal fragrance this time is the smell of boiling water with a sweet floral fragrance.
The medicinal aroma of the light plant blends with the fresh floral fragrance, refreshing with a slight sweetness.
People can't help but want to smell a little more, taste a little more.
In 2021, the ecological spring shoumei, the herbal fragrance will be much richer and thicker.
In the period of silver needle and peony new tea, the medicinal fragrance is mainly the tail note of the cover incense.
By 2021, the ecological spring shoumei, the aroma of herbs has shifted to the top note on the lid.
In the fourth flush, a large number of herbal tea flavors of snake tongue grass and summer dry grass emerged, even overshadowing the rich floral fragrance.
Not only does it dance on the lid, but it also falls into the soup, and together with the floral fragrance, it blends into the thick tea soup.
Take a sip, thick, slippery, thick, thick, with a cool touch in the fragrance.
People can't help but drink after cup, and then indulge in it.
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The medicinal aroma of white tea is its innate, self-contained aroma.
Each white tea has a different medicinal aroma.
The same white tea, different stages of medicinal fragrance, also have their own charm.
Good white tea, even if it is the same, the same stage, the medicinal aroma of each punch, will be different.
The high-quality white tea, just the aroma of medicinal aroma, has changed thousands of forms.
Not to mention the aroma of white tea, there are also fresh fragrances, rich rice aromas, diverse and rich floral fragrances, cool rice dumplings, and so on.
From new to old, from silver needles to peonies to shoumei.
There are too many white teas waiting for us to taste and feel.
The sky is long and sometimes ends, only to drink white tea, there is no end.
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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.