丨This article was originally created by Xiao Chen Chashi
丨First published in the headline: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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This year's wilderness silver needle is very small.
The reasons are well known, last year's drought, this spring's frost, and the slow but firm condition of the white tea plant when it germinates.
It is slow to send and naturally not big.
It is precisely because of this that this year's wilderness rice needle is the closest to the shape of the word "rice needle" in the past three or four years.
The wilderness silver needle is the silver needle after picking out the remaining wilderness rice needle.
Of course, there is no shortage of fish that slipped through the net.
There was no shortage of missed wilderness rice needles, so Shi Shiran lay in the team of wilderness silver needles.
Therefore, people who have seen this year's wilderness silver needle all praise its appearance.
It is not thin and thin is a good silver needle, what is rare is that its stem is extremely short, not tall and tall, and white and thick.
This is the signature look of the real Taimu Wilderness Silver Needle.
If you hold it in your hand, you will know that it is fine, soft, sticky, fluffy, like a newborn, with fine soft feathers, small animals.
Wilderness silver needle production in 2023 is not high as usual.
No one's wilderness silver needle production is high.
Especially this year's special weather, El Niño and La Niña take turns to raise wild white tea, which can be highly productive.
Most of them are barely maintaining production.
However, the exception is Wilderness White Tea, which is overhauled once a year.
This kind of tea, although the tea tree is a wilderness tea tree, but pruned every year, its age, its wildness, has been greatly reduced, sometimes the taste is not as strong as the deserted white tea tree.
Unfortunately, with the rise of white tea, the group of wild white tea is gradually declining.
Manual management, for the yield of the year sheared, in order to easy to pick the long branches are cut short....
The increase in production must come at the cost of reduced quality.
And the barren mountains in the past were really barren and inaccessible. And now, when the market is better every year, a large number of barren mountains have been cleared to grow tea, and new white tea gardens stand one after another on the original wilderness ridges, and the original intact and good mountain vegetation has become a patchy leper.
The growing environment of wilderness white tea is no longer as wild and chaotic as before.
Yes, the wilderness of wild tea is less than one year a year.
Buying some wilderness white tea early is the right thing for tea lovers to do right now.
It's still the old saying: if there are flowers, you must fold them, but don't bend branches without flowers.
Amorous since ancient times, empty hatred. Amorous is always ruthlessly annoyed.
First Stroke:
The first smell of the lid when the lid is uncovered is the aroma of fresh herbs.
Herbal tea boiled from the fresh grass of summer hay, the smell of fresh herbs.
It is the deepest memory of summer for people in the south and south.
In the summer of Fuzhou, where the sun is scorching, drinking a cup of quiet to sweet herbal tea in the exposure to fried eggs on the road at noon is really the joy of life.
The kind that can be saved from the heat.
At that time, I will know what the prodigal son is to turn back, and returning from the summer heat to the cool is the love of life.
So this fresh fragrance penetrates into our nasal cavity, and in this hot summer that makes people miss Houyi, people from soul to body are refreshed.
Behind the aroma of fresh herbs, the second layer, is the fragrance of fresh flowers.
It is the kind of fresh and rich, penetrating floral fragrance.
Surrounded by deep emerald lush leaves, small clusters of pink-white flowers bloom, such as seven lilies, night lilacs, and four seasons laurel.
Especially when the night is deep, these small clusters of flowers will exude a lot of fragrance, releasing the fragrance that is blocked by the heat during the day in this not quiet night.
It adds three points of richness to this noisy Midsummer Eve.
The soup color is crystal plain white, almost transparent, of course, not completely transparent, there is white floating in it, looking at it from afar, it is like a huge white crystal, covered with fine textures.
The crystal is already dazzlingly white, and with this white embellishment, if it is embossed, it will be more three-dimensional and more textured.
The soup is fresh, soft and clear, like drinking a bowl of crystal frozen.
The glutinous feeling is not enough, I think it is the first rush, and the release of endoplasm is slow.
The freshness in the soup is good.
Fresh and tender, it is a clear spring deep in the mountains in May, soaked with freshly picked Chen Ai, soaked in freshly picked calamus, the fresh aromatic molecules of these herbs are immersed in the spring water, drink a sip, fresh to the bottom of the heart.
Second stroke:
The fresh and tender aroma of wild grass is the first layer of cover incense.
Go for a walk in the mountains in May, the dense, green mountain weeds, the hormonal fragrance under the scorching sun.
Even the rain does not know that spring is gone, and the sun is clear and the summer is deep.
There is always a lot of rain in late spring, and early summer is also the rainy season, and in the middle of summer, when the rain goes to clear and the sun is scorching, the plants in the mountains will grow in the wind, and the sun will grow, and in a few days, it will be green and green all over the mountains.
That kind of lush vitality, that kind of posture that stands up to the heavens and the earth, really surprised the people in the city who rarely went up the mountain, the power of this life explosion.
At this time, go to the tea garden on the mountain, you can see that among the dense tea tree branches crowded together, there are tenacious dogtail grass and fern grass.... Trying to poke his head out, tiptoe, stretch out his hand, peel off the branches and leaves of the tea tree, and absorb the sun and rain upwards.
At that moment, I just felt the greatness of life.
Even a life with such a low spiritual nature as grass and trees still has the yearning to get ahead.
And these high-spirited plants, exuding a strong hormonal smell in the sun, is the smell of fresh weeds that village girl Chen smelled on the cover of this 2023 wilderness silver needle today.
Belongs to the mountains and wilderness, the smell of life.
The soup is one size deeper, but overall it still shows a clear honey water color, like an autumn night, silver light washing, the moon is like water.
There is whiteness in it, decorating this transparent soup, making it flexible and rich.
The tea soup is moist, fresh and moist; It's smooth and soft again.
Like a fragrant soft silk quilt, spread softly on the bed, snuggled up, can have a soft dream.
The taste of the soup became stronger.
There is a fresh smell of wild grass, rippling in the tea soup; There is a warm bamboo and wood fragrance, which is in the tea soup; There is also the luscious aroma of wildflowers, hidden in the tea soup.
Take a sip and the fragrance will fill your cheeks.
Fresh, tender and fragrant.
Third stroke:
The vivid aroma of wild grass and the delicate floral aroma are the blends of this top note.
The smell of wild grass is extremely clear and fresh, and it is the kind of strong wildness that cannot be concealed in the vigorous plant cells.
The fragrance of flowers is extremely rich, belonging to the cold floral fragrance, the aroma of small white flowers in clusters of huge green leaves.
Like seven lilies, like night lilacs, like Milan, like dog tooth flowers....
This mixture of grass and floral aroma is very special, rarely smelled in white tea, and rarely smelled in white silver needles.
It is also thanks to this is a wilderness silver needle, born to nurture, grow in the wild, habitually compete with the surrounding environment for survival resources, grab space to grab sunlight and rain, and naturally have a competitive temperament, in order to produce a unique fragrance that is very different from other white silver needles.
Of course, due to last year's drought, and this spring's frost, two unique weathers have given this year's wilderness silver needles, which are so unique.
Sometimes, the right time and place can make a good white tea that is memorable and memorable.
Such as this unique fragrance, 2023 Wilderness Silver Needle.
The color of the soup does not deepen. It's still the color of Mimi's teeth. Like a piece of Hetian white jade, it has a light sugar color.
The taste in the soup is enhanced.
After all, it is the third flush, the release of the contents is stronger, and the taste of the soup is naturally richer and more personal.
The fragrance of flowers fell into the tea soup, and the fragrance of the night fragrance was delicate.
It is often used to wear necklaces on summer nights, and even the branches and flowers are plucked, woven into a garland, worn around the neck, and all night, it is covered in the fragrance of the flowers.
Even dreams are colorful and flower-scented.
Like a flower fairy who has fallen into the world.
The soup also has a very light aroma of wild grass, which is not as rich as the fragrance of flowers, but quietly making a green leaf, not contending, but no one ignores its existence.
This wild grass fragrance, combined with the floral aroma of seven lixiang, makes the soup more cold and more flexible.
Full of smoke and rain, green leaves and red flowers are not different.
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, columnist, the chief writer of the original innovative media "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" in the tea industry, has published the white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Handbook", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.