There are three wonderful things about tea:
One is color, two is incense, and three is taste.
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Liu Yuanchang of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "The History of Tea": "There are three wonders of tea: one is color, two is fragrance, and three is taste."
There are hundreds of smells and aromas of tea, many of which appear in our daily life.
Smell the fragrance and recognize the tea, taste the fragrance and distinguish the rhyme, the aroma of white tea is wonderful, and then share several common aromatic smells of Fuding white tea.
"1 milligram
Milli fragrance is the most characteristic fragrance type of white tea, and the freshness of this small bud is also unique to a unique fragrance, which will make people feel fresh and refined, elegant and lovely.
The white tea of white tea is mainly distributed in the fresh bud head and leaf back, and it is silvery-white after drying.
"2 fragrance
The fragrance mainly belongs to the new white tea, which means fresh and elegant, making people feel elegant and fresh, such as entering the boundless grassland, deep in early spring.
In the early stage of wilting, as the leaf temperature rises, a large amount of homeopathic green leaf alcohol volatilizes and transforms into trans green leaf alcohol, and some simple aliphatic molecules produced by high temperature decomposition form the characteristics of fragrance.
"3 honey fragrance
Honey fragrance is the fragrance type formed after a period of storage of white tea, this aroma is long-lasting and durable, a cup of honey-scented pure white tea can leave an afterglow in your mouth all day long.
The main aroma component that forms the honey fragrance is benzyl phenylacetate, which has a high boiling point and can exist for a long time. In addition, benzyl alcohol also has a faint honey sweetness, which also contributes to the formation of honey fragrance.
"4. Fresh floral scent
Floral fragrance is also a common fragrance type in white tea, and the floral fragrance can be smelled on the body of Baihao Silver Needle, White Peony, and Shou Mei, among which the white peony is the most severe, the most abundant fragrance, and the most distinctive.
The one that contributes the most to the fresh floral fragrance is linalool, a high-boiling aroma substance, which is manifested after the low-boiling aroma substance represented by green leaf alcohol is volatilized by withering.
"5. Sweet and mellow floral scent
The sweet and mellow floral fragrance is generally formed after the precipitation of time, and mostly appears on the aged white tea, and the floral fragrance is mainly osmanthus and jasmine, which is pleasant to smell and invigorate.
This type of fragrance mainly relies on aroma substances such as β-ionone, jasmonone and some ionone derivatives to participate in the performance of this fragrance. And different contents and proportions will produce different effects, which is one of the reasons for the diverse aroma characteristics of white tea.
"6 sun sunburning
Sunlight withering is the most important process of white tea.
"7 Chen Xiang
Aged fragrance is the tea fragrance precipitated over the years, commonly found in old white tea stored for more than three years, it is one of the core flavors of old white tea, it can be said that there is no aged fragrance is not qualified old white tea.
Aged incense smells similar to the deep aroma of aged wood, but more vibrant, it is aged and active, not dull. Aged incense is a complex mixed aroma, which is a mixed expression of aged flavor, woody aroma, jujube aroma, medicinal aroma and other types of odors.
"8. Rock sugar fragrant
Rock sugar aroma is more common in white tea at higher altitudes, and it is often accompanied by a strong aftertaste and a cool throat feeling, which is one of the characteristics of excellent tea quality.
There are some repetitions between the composition of rock sugar and honey sweetness, as well as some aromas of sugar itself. Soluble sugars are abundant in white tea, generally accounting for 4-7% of the dry matter.
"9 glutinous rice fragrant
It is a natural fragrant substance and rich in nutrients, and its fragrance is similar to the fragrance of fresh glutinous rice, so it is named "glutinous rice fragrance".
"10 jujubes
Jujube fragrance is one of the precious fragrance types in old white tea, it smells like dried jujube, and the aged Shou Mei can form a sweet jujube fragrance after the cake pressing process, which is a very classic style in old white tea.
Jujube fragrance is easy to appear in Shou Mei and Gong Mei, which are relatively coarse and old, because the overall sugar content of coarse old leaves is higher, which can generate more soluble sugar. When the sugar aroma reaches a certain level, it is mixed with other aromas such as woody aroma to show an aroma similar to that of dried jujubes.
"11 longan incense
Tea aroma similar to dried cinnamon is usually found in relatively high grade white silver needles and high-grade white peonies, and white tea with cinnamon aroma is often processed in Chinese slow roasting process. In white tea, longan incense is similar to jujube incense, but it is not as mellow as jujube incense and is more clear.
"12 lotus
The lotus fragrance mainly comes from the Baihao silver needle and high-grade peony that have been transformed over time, and it is generally a loose tea form of tea, and a faint lotus fragrance will be smelled in the dry tea.
If you want to leave the lotus fragrance from the green fragrance, you must have good conditions and precise storage to generate high-quality tea fragrance.
"13 medicinal incense
The medicinal fragrance is the exclusive tea fragrance of white tea that has been aged for more than seven years, and the medicinal fragrance is naturally the fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine, which is the breath of plants and trees that have been aged for a long time, because tea is also a plant and tree, and after being aged for a long time, there will naturally be a similar smell.
The climate in the south is warm, and the tea leaves age faster.
"14 ginseng
It is an aroma similar to ginseng that belongs to old white tea, and is commonly found in old white tea that has been stored in hot and humid climates. In addition to these substances, the composition of ginseng aroma characteristics in white tea also has the participation of some woody aroma and sweet aroma.
"15 chocolate scents
This kind of fragrance is relatively rare, and the correct aroma can be formed after the right raw materials, the right process, and the right storage.
The rich and charming chocolate aroma is the most direct and accurate indicator to identify high-quality old white tea. This fragrance is beyond the imagination of tea lovers, and it is also the only tea category of the six major teas that can perfectly interpret and replicate the chocolate flavor.
There are many types of white tea, how many have you drunk? With the summary of senior tea friends, embark on a journey of tasting white tea!
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