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Among the six major tea systems, white tea has the simplest process.
The fresh and tender tea leaves are picked in the spring, dried in the sun, and naturally withered and dried to become white tea.
Without complicated processes and no more manual intervention, white tea presents the taste that is closest to nature, with a sweet taste and a mellow soup.
And white tea is still tea that can walk with the years, so in the white tea industry there is a saying of "saving new tea and drinking old tea".
New white tea and old white tea are just like the "newcomers" and "predecessors" in the white tea industry.
New white tea: refers to white tea made in the year of picking and aged for less than 1 year;
Old white tea: refers to white tea that has aged for 3 years and above.
In the tea circle, the discussion of new and old white tea can be described as hot, and many novice tea friends are also quite entangled in the two and do not know how to choose.
First, consider your personal taste preferences
The charm of white tea is that it will change wonderfully with the passage of time, and after patient storage and aging, white tea will glow with a strong tea aroma and mellow taste.
How to choose new tea and old tea? First of all, you should consider personal preferences.
For tea lovers who like to drink green tea and like a fresh taste, new white tea is a good choice, especially the white silver needle and white peony in the new tea.
New white tea has a "small fresh" style, its taste is sweet, fresh and mild, its aroma is elegant, mainly floral aroma, milli fragrance, clear fragrance.
When you brew a new white tea, a wisp of tea fragrance will overflow, and the clear apricot yellow tea soup will be vibrant.
In contrast, tea friends who like to drink Pu'er tea, black tea and other heavier taste before entering white tea have developed a heavier taste preference or have habits such as smoking and drinking, and their taste buds have become accustomed to stimulating sensations.
New white tea is too weak for them, whether it is aroma or taste. At this time, you can choose to drink old white tea, especially old white tea tea cakes, which is very suitable.
From new tea to old white tea, aged for 3-5 years, the soup of white tea gradually tends to be mellow and rich, full and sweet, and full of pulp. After polishing, the tea aroma has also changed from elegant to full-bodied, with jujube, medicinal, aged and zongye as the main aromas.
Brewing, brewing tea, stuffy brewing is very suitable for old white tea, brewing a cup of tea soup, the soup color orange yellow bright, tea fragrance from the lid bowl continuously, filling the space, people can't stop.
Everyone is difficult to reconcile, each has its own love. Whether you are a new tea lover or an old tea customer, you can take personal preference as the first factor when buying tea.
Second, look at budget needs
Compared with new white tea and old white tea, between the two, it is definitely more cost-effective for new white tea. White tea belongs to the category of tea that is constantly appreciating and experiences a small increase every year.
There are two reasons that guide the price of old white tea to rise.
First, white tea and white tea will incur certain costs in the storage process, such as site fees, labor costs, electricity costs, etc., and during the storage process, the dehumidifier and air conditioner in the warehouse need to run 24 hours a day, guarding them all the time.
Second, with the growth of the year, the same grade of white tea, old white tea will contain more substances than new tea, and in terms of efficacy, old white tea will also be better.
Based on the above, it can be known that in the same grade, the cost performance of new white tea is definitely higher than that of old white tea, if new tea friends just want to understand white tea, there is no particularly high budget flower, you can choose more cost-effective, good quality new white tea, self-storage into old tea.
Again, consider whether you want to try more
Tea lovers who are slightly familiar with white tea will find a problem, the old white tea on the market is generally Shoumei, aged silver needles, aged peonies are relatively rare.
It is not that Bai Hao Yin Needle and White Peony are not worth storing for a long time, the main thing is that the production of their two is relatively small, compared to Shoumei with two picking seasons, Bai Hao Silver Needle and White Peony can be stored for a long time after meeting the daily drinking needs, which is really few.
Therefore, the old white tea is much less than the new white tea, and the choices are less, spring white tea only on silver needles has head silver needles, wilderness silver needles, white silver needles, etc., are the objects that old tea customers are vying to buy and collect.
If novice tea lovers want to try more different types of white tea and find out which white tea is most suitable for themselves, they can choose new white tea.
Finally, consider whether you have enough judgment
Whether new tea lovers buy new white tea or old white tea, they must consider whether they have enough judgment, new tea and old tea have the performance of buying fake tea, but the chance of old white tea being fraudulent is greater and the risk is greater.
Old white tea is more likely to appear old tea, with some improper means, such as placing white tea in a high temperature, high humidity environment, the white tea into a dark appearance, so that it resembles old white tea.
So before you start, keep in mind one important point: old white tea is not cheap. After years of good storage, normal old white tea will have a large amount of accumulation of internal matter, and customers will transform more beneficial substances. Good tea, the older the more fragrant, the older the better.
And old tea, its internal matter is scarce, tea aroma is less, tea taste is light, slightly astringent, the flavor is greatly reduced, such old white tea is worthless, not worth buying, collecting.
When choosing old white tea, it is best to choose the year is not so high, it is best to be just three or five years of old white tea, its price is suitable, the stock is more, and there is no need to do old.
And for those "old white tea" that is high in vintage, but the price is relatively low, and the appearance is as black as ink, it is necessary to stay away, do not be greedy and cheap, otherwise, you will suffer a big loss.
It is necessary to see more, understand more about other people's experience, learn what real old white tea is like, and absorb and transform the experience of others into a "treasure book" for buying tea by yourself.
New white tea, old white tea, each with its own style, each with its own merits. Some people like the "freshness and stimulation" of new tea, and some people like the "gentleness and connotation" of old tea.
But whether it is new white tea or old white tea, quality is king, as long as it is good enough, it is worth trying.
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