丨This article was originally created by Xiao Chen Tea Class
丨First published in the headline: Xiao Chen tea affairs
丨Author: Li Mahua
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It's the weekend, talk about an open-ended topic.
Everyone has drunk rock tea for so long, what do you think of aged rock tea?
Last week, a friend who opened a shop provided us with a piece of material.
On Thursday night, as he was about to close, a customer arrived.
The visitor was a guest, so he put the tea set that had been packed up and put it up again.
Boil water and prepare for tea.
But the guests named him, and he only drank stale tea.
So the friend took out a bubble of 2017 Zhengyan Narcissus and entertained each other.
While drinking tea and chatting casually, the other party made a lot of points.
My friend found it controversial, so he paraphrased it.
The general content is described below.
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First, "People who drink tea and have tea addictions love to drink aged tea?" ”
Twist believes that this is always a family view and is not representative.
You don't see how much those old tea customers who love to drink green tea and taste it despise green tea the next year.
Even if it is rock tea, aged tea may not be a fragrant dumpling.
Aged tea that is impermeable to roasting and improperly stored, once the aroma becomes weakened, the stale taste is aggravated, and the tea soup has a miscellaneous taste in the mouth.
Such aged tea cannot be said to be "a treasure", it can only be said to be "a bush of grass".
In recent years, many similar absolutist views on tea drinking have been collected.
"People who really know how to drink rock tea should drink tea that tastes bitter, stimulating, and vigorous."
"People who are addicted to drinking rock tea should choose Lao Cong."
"Drinking enough fire rock tea can solve the problem of tea addiction, and rock tea with insufficient roasting is difficult to put on the table."
As well as this one seen today, it is believed that drinking aged tea of rock tea can solve tea addiction.
To put it bluntly, this is just a personal taste preference.
Green vegetables and turnips, each with its own love.
Objectively speaking, good tea with outstanding aroma, taste and aftertaste, regardless of new tea and aged tea, regardless of light fire and full fire, can make people addicted to drinking tea!
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Second, "Traditional charcoal-roasted tea cannot be drunk back then, and it is easy to get on fire. ”
The point of view of this statement can indeed be found in the "Min Tea Song".
Although it was good before the rain, it was too new, and the fire did not remove the lips.
Hidden crimson triple the price, the family sells the next year.
The idea that new tea is hot and suitable for drinking the next year has indeed been deeply publicized in the early years.
But this time, another time.
Today's Wuyi rock tea is rarely roasted like that, and it needs to be drunk in the next year.
Light fire tea, medium heat tea, and partial full fire tea, most of which can fade in the same year.
Once you're done fading, you're ready to enjoy.
Drink tea appropriately and don't have to worry about the so-called heat trouble.
In addition, even in the past, Wuyi tea was not roasted so high from the beginning.
For example, the white rooster crown in the four famous bushes.
White chicken crown is a characteristic albino variety in rock tea, which has been left in legends since the Song Dynasty, and is said to be the cultivation of the white jade toad Daoist to practice qi tea.
From the fresh leaves of the newborn tea tree in the spring of the white chicken crown tea tree, it can be seen that its leaves are not only white, but also tender.
When processing white chicken crowns, it is not suitable for roasting the fire power.
Light fire, medium light fire, is more than enough.
Rashly roasting the fire power will damage the characteristics of the variety and destroy the mellow and refreshing tea taste of the white chicken crown itself.
Therefore, through the example of the white rooster crown, it can be proved a little.
The traditional processing of rock tea is not all about roasting fire to the extreme.
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3. "Rock tea can be aged to make a bowl of tea soup with the charm of rock charm?" ”
This is 100% certain that this is a rumor, a pure rumor.
Whether rock tea is aged or not has nothing to do with Yan Yun itself.
Yan Yun, related to the rock tea mountain farm.
No rock, no rock rhyme.
The area around Zhengyan Mountain Field has a lot of weathered rock.
The debris peeled off the weathered rock falls into the surrounding tea soil, which is both breathable and brings unique nutrients to the soil.
The final made zhengyan tea can achieve a mellow soup feeling, and the moment the tea is swallowed into the throat, such as "tea bone", there is a bone fish.
And after drinking tea, the aftertaste such as sweetness, fragrant, and raw jin will last for a long time.
Zhengyan tea that is positive enough in the mountain field, even if it is new tea, will have rock charm.
From beginning to end, the "rock rhyme" of rock tea has nothing to do with later aging!
It is undeniable that some rock teas in Wuyishan are developing in the direction of aging when they are first processed.
Make green and thorough, roast tea thoroughly.
After the new tea is processed, as long as it is tightly sealed and moisture-proof, it can be placed for three years and five years, or even longer, without returning to green and not deteriorating.
But this rock tea, at present, is in the minority.
Besides, it is not realistic from a business logic.
If a rock tea can be delicious from the new tea stage, the aroma and taste are good.
Why spend so many more years waiting?
In case during storage, the tea leaves will turn green and sour due to moisture.
In the end, the cost of tea green, roasted tea, and storage of the whole batch of tea are all smashed on the hand, isn't the bamboo basket empty?
Because of this, in the rock tea market, it is not so easy to drink aged rock tea with a slightly better flavor.
If new tea lovers want to be curious to try, choose the next year, or the aged tea within three or five years to try, it is safer.
If the year is too old, it is not recommended to try rashly, the risk of stepping on the mine is too great.
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4. "Without the fire of aged rock tea, the mouth is more moist?" ”
As shared before, the first tip of good rock tea is to have a warm mouth.
No astringency, no numbness, no sourness.
The tea soup is soft, smooth and thick.
The moment the tea was swallowed into the throat, there was no need to push it with the tongue.
Moreover, there is no need to deliberately swallow.
The mellow and smooth soup has a noticeable pulp and slides naturally into the throat.
The top Zhengyan Lao Cong Narcissus, the tea flavor is rich, the soup is extremely mellow, and it has this taste of "the entrance is unobstructed, and the tea disappears into the throat instantly".
The wonderful thing is that when the tea soup slips and falls, it can burst out a lot of wonderful tea flavors in an instant.
Between the lips and teeth, it is full of the aroma of tea.
Smash it, smash it, even the teeth are fragrant.
The tongue feels clean, comfortable and without any stickiness.
The throat is fast and vigorous.
With the continuous superposition of the sense of vitality, similar to the clear spring gushing out of the gap in the mountain rock, the outflow of mountain streams can regulate the microclimate of the mountain field and make the surrounding air full of coolness.
The same is true of the cool sensation in the throat.
As the liquid continues to grow, the throat will feel cool, which is very pleasant.
This raw and cool feeling, moisturizing is silent.
Very moist and delicate.
This sense of moisturizing is irreplaceable by simply drinking plain water. Only good tea with sufficient nutrients will have a strong sense of moisture.
A rock tea is "moist or not moist" in the mouth, and there is no necessary connection between new tea and aged tea.
The point is that the innate nutrients are sufficient and the quality is good!
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I once discussed a topic with a friend over tea.
Really good tea is not as simple as simply drinking the taste.
It's easy to be unbitter and not sour.
Moreover, when you want to drink a sweeter, more fragrant tea, there are also a lot of ways to adjust.
The easiest thing is to buy the new flavored tea bags.
For example, peach osmanthus oolong and the like.
How sweet and sweet, how fragrant and fragrant.
But this kind of tea, which only meets the needs of taste levels, is too superficial and superficial.
Really good tea can also watch the after-effects. See if the aftertaste after drinking tea is wonderful.
Similarly, the "run" mentioned above.
A good tea with rich internal quality, all with a strong sense of moisture.
The tea is fragrant and smooth, with a long-lasting aftertaste, raw and cool.
These endless wonderful aftertastes are a demonstration of the strength of good tea, far from being comparable to ordinary inferior tea!
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