In the Taiwan Pu'er tea industry, there is an intriguing famous saying: Pu'er tea is the last stop for all tea drinkers and the ultimate expression of all teas.
People who have not drunk Pu'er may be confused about this,
People who love other teas may scoff at this,
But people who have drunk Pu'er may be deeply convinced, and some old tea customers are even more true to this.
Why is Pu-erh tea such a unique presence? Where does the charm of Pu'er tea come from? Then today Lu Li will use this article to knock on the door of Pu'er tea for new tea friends.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > unique Pu'er species</h1>
The other six major tea categories, most of which are one board and one glance, one door and one taste, if you take the analogy of martial arts characters:
Longjing green tea is a flowing and refreshing getaway;
Fuding White Tea, that is, a light and elegant white woman;
Wuyi Rock Tea, that is, a Shaolin martial monk who practices roasting fire hard;
Zhengshan small species, is the incense red of everyone's boudoir show.
Compared with these traditional sects with different characteristics but fixed styles, Pu'er tea may be an all-encompassing and self-contained martial arts alliance master.
There are raw tea and cooked tea; there are ancient tree new tea and Indian grade old tea; there is a mixture and pure ingredients; there is a cantonese and Yunnan warehousing; there is a brick tuo cake of the tight pressure, etc., creating the characteristics of Pu'er tea.
Other teas in order to ensure their fresh taste, often out of the factory to drink, the biggest exception, is only Wuyi rock tea and other teas, because annealing to wait for several years to drink.
However, Pu'er tea not only has no shelf life, but also can be stored for a long time, which is unique among the six major types of tea.
Pu'er tea belongs to the Yunnan arborvitae large-leaf species, tea polyphenols and caffeine and other containing substances are very rich, the taste is unusually domineering and strong, dissuading many new people who have come to admire.
However, if you can be patient and carefully taste Pu'er tea, you can feel the bitterness behind the beautiful taste of thousands of trees and pear blossoms.
A young tea friend once compared the feeling of drinking Pu'er tea for the first time to a supernova explosion, which is not something that everyone can gladly accept, but for tea drinkers who have been drinking tea for decades, they may see the hunter's heart.
If you adapt to the taste of Pu'er tea and drink it for a period of time, and then go back to drinking other types of tea, you may feel that the tea soup is as bland as boiled water, or even tasteless.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > non-renewable pu-erh old tea</h1>
For teas such as green tea that pursue fresh taste, tea is a renewable resource. After all, tea comes from tea plants, and tea trees grow new tea leaves every year, and some can even be picked multiple times a year.
But for the old Pu'er tea, which is more and more fragrant, it can be said to be the complete opposite. The growing environment of the mountain, the manufacturer's technology, and the storage environment of the storage make each Pu'er old tea have its own unique taste.
Take tens of thousands of pieces of 88 green, even if you can copy the wool and production process at that time, after aging for decades, it is not necessarily the same as the taste of the existing 88 green, after all, the ecological, climatic and other conditions of that year cannot be copied.
From this point of view, buying old tea is also relatively fair. After all, time can't buy money, but you can buy Pu'er old tea that has been precipitated for decades.
People who are obsessed with Pu'er tea, the pursuit of quality is endless, many tea friends in the first entry, think that ration tea is quite good, but when someone invited him to drink really good tea, it was difficult to enter before.
There is an irreconcilable contradiction between the continuous expansion of the Pu'er old tea consumer population and the drinking of a small piece of Pu'er old tea, which will cause the price of Pu'er old tea to continue to rise.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the more fragrant and appreciating characteristics</h1>
There are many varieties of Pu'er tea, and its price ranges from tens of thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and this price difference is not only affected by market supply and demand, but also a large part of the reason is the quality of Pu'er tea itself.
Pu'er tea needs time to transform, and the more aged and fragrant is a process of tea from cold to peaceful, smooth and warm, such as the pu'er old raw tea in the 90s, after decades of transformation, the bitterness recedes, and the taste becomes warm.
This sublimation of quality also makes it have the investment attribute of increasing value and value, but the premise should be based on quality, rather than on the existence of the world.
For example, some pu'er old tea, the aged year is indeed long, but it can be preserved to today, it is likely that it can not be sold in that year, can only be used to press the warehouse low, but with the heat of the Pu'er market, it has become a "treasure".
With the entry of all kinds of investors, the Pu'er old tea market is chaotic, hoarding is strange, cultural speculation is not uncommon, and there are some "artificial old teas" with unknown origins and mixed colors, etc., which make people have to sigh that the water is deep.
Not to mention that the aging process of old tea will also have certain risks, and while wanting to obtain benefits with more and more fragrance, it is also necessary to bear the risk of storage problems, resulting in pu'er tea mildew, and then losing all costs.
Time can precipitate old tea, but not necessarily good tea. To use a sentence to describe the current Pu'er old tea market, that is: one penny for one penny, ten points for eight points, and one hundred points for ten points.
Now there are famous and surnamed old tea, although the price is not low, but are relying on excellent quality to win the trust of the market, looking back at those tens of thousands of pieces of Pu'er new tea, collection investment ingredients have replaced the fundamental tasting value.
Perhaps only when the tide of fanaticism recedes one by one can we know who among these people really loves Pu'er's tea people, and who is just a businessman who covets temporary dividends.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > all kinds of tea aromas and storage around the world</h1>
Pu'er can be more and more fragrant characteristics, spawned countless peculiar tea aromas, from the newly made incense, to the original incense after several years of aging, to the elegant camphor incense, light lotus fragrance, simple medicinal fragrance.
This process is indeed very long, often more than ten years of time, but it is also worth it, this ever-changing aroma, is the greatest pleasure of many old tea friends drinking tea
Different storage environments will also have a positive or negative impact on Pu'er tea, such as professional warehouses in Dongguan, Kunming warehouses in Yunnan, wet warehouses in Hong Kong, and even overseas Malaysian warehouses.
Although at present, drying, ventilation and light avoidance have become the consensus of the industry, but in the end, the storage of that place is more conducive to the transformation of Pu'er, it is still controversial, but this unknown feeling is also one of the fun of collecting Pu'er tea.
Among the six major tea categories, Pu'er tea is a unique taste outlier, no matter which tea you like before, once you accept Pu'er tea, it may be difficult to go back.
But if you want to use this as a basis, hard to distinguish Pu'er tea and other teas, there is also bias, after all, palatial is precious, I wish every tea friend, can meet the most suitable for their own tea.