Two days ago I wrote several articles about tea, including "jasmine tea". After reading the article, many friends have raised a question: "How to distinguish jasmine tea with flavor." In view of the large number of readers and friends who ask questions, and the problem is not a simple two-sentence statement. Therefore, I would like to answer this question in detail for the majority of fans and readers in the form of an article.
Jasmine silver needles
It's officially summer, especially in the south, where I'm in, a dozen days ago, when I started to appreciate the power of the 35-degree heat, and the northern regions may still be in the comfort of spring in comparison. In the hot summer, if you want to drink tea, I think a cup of fragrant and cool, mellow jasmine tea will definitely be able to solve your summer troubles.
Jasmine tea belongs to one of the flower teas, but also the current sales in China is better, many consumers like to drink a kind of flower tea. Of course, flower tea is one of the 7 major tea families in China, in addition to jasmine tea, there are many other kinds of flower tea, such as: rose tea, osmanthus tea, plum tea, rose tea and so on. The flower tea represented by jasmine can be favored by people, mainly because the flower tea has both the aroma of tea and the fragrance of various flowers, and the flower tea is convenient, simple, and elegant.
After thousands of years of development, jasmine tea has mainly formed four major jasmine tea production areas in China, such as Fuzhou, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Jiangsu and Sichuan, of which Fujian jasmine tea is the most famous.
Premium jasmine tea
For example: milli buds are fat, tight and symmetrical, the aroma is fresh and rich, the taste is fresh and refreshing, the special jasmine tea of Minhao is shaped like a finch tongue, the sharp is revealed, the color is honey yellow, the aroma is fresh, the taste is rich, the soup color is yellow and clear, the tongue is high-grade jasmine tea; the buds are evenly weighed, the tea is light yellow, full of fur, the aroma is fresh and strong, the soup color is yellow and green, and the large white jasmine tea that is still fragrant after four or five brews is tight and solid, uniform, the aroma is fresh, the taste is mellow, the soup is yellow and bright, and the leaf bottom is thick, Bubble-resistant dragon ball mid-range jasmine tea and more.
The so-called high-grade and special jasmine tea is made of famous green tea or special form of green tea plain blank. According to different appearance characteristics, they are given their own distinctive names, such as Jasmine MaoFeng, Jasmine Dragon Ball, Jasmine Snow Bud, Jasmine Silver Needle, etc. Therefore, China's current jasmine tea on the market can be said to be a wide variety, the specific name is innumerable, for consumers who do not understand tea knowledge, when buying tea, how to buy high-quality tea, there are indeed difficulties.
Jasmine Dragon Ball
In particular, some unscrupulous merchants who are only interested in profit, in order to sell their originally poor quality tea at a good price, use the means of adding flavor or dyeing to deceive consumers, so as to obtain improper benefits, resulting in uneven quality of jasmine tea on the market, and a variety of flavor teas and dyed teas are not uncommon. So how do we tell if jasmine tea has flavor? Let's give you a detailed answer.
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First of all, we must understand a knowledge: although tea is used for drinking, it is also a food. China clearly stipulates in the "Tea Standards" that tea cannot add any food additives. That is to say, tea is a pure natural food without any additives, on the contrary, as long as it is tea with additives, it is unqualified tea. Needless to say, jasmine teas with "flavor" or "pigment" are inferior jasmine teas that do not comply with the law. We can judge whether jasmine tea has added "flavor" from the following aspects.
NO1: Dry tea smells fragrant
Jasmine tea is made
Authentic jasmine tea is made with high-quality green tea for tea embryos after many times of kilning and screening, the more times it is made, the stronger the aroma of the tea, the better the quality. Although jasmine has the reputation of "the first fragrance in the world", its aroma is always a cool fragrance, which is a quiet and natural aroma. We grab a handful of dried jasmine tea with our hands to smell it, if the aroma with the above characteristics, naturally is a good tea, and the more intense the aroma, the better the quality, on the contrary, if the aroma is particularly fragrant, and strong and pungent, then this jasmine tea is not normal, nine times out of ten is added "flavor", it is not recommended to buy.
NO2: Brew tea and smell the aroma
High-quality jasmine tea, from the aroma alone, the aroma of jasmine is fully absorbed by the tea leaves, which is the result of many times of kilning of jasmine and tea leaves, with the characteristics of durable foaming and long-lasting aroma, such as brewing four or five times There is still a lingering aroma of the special jasmine tea, even after many brewing, the jasmine fragrance is still stronger. When we brew jasmine tea, if the first time the fragrance is very strong, and after the second and third brewing, the aroma is significantly reduced, or even no aroma, indicating that this jasmine tea may be flavor tea. Even if it is not a flavor tea, at least it is a very poor quality jasmine tea, indicating that the number of kilns is small or even second-hand jasmine. Therefore, if there are tea leaves in the above two types of situations, it is recommended not to buy them.
NO3: Look at the price
Although not the higher the price of jasmine tea is necessarily a high-quality jasmine tea. However, according to the normal market law, merchants and manufacturers will not do loss-making transactions, as the saying goes: "a penny for a penny", so through the price can also roughly judge whether it is high-quality jasmine tea. Because the manufacturing cost of jasmine tea determines the price of jasmine tea, the more high-quality jasmine tea, the more times it is made in the manufacturing process, and the more times it is made, the higher the cost.
The so-called kilning, is to pile up the high-quality jasmine flowers and high-quality green tea embryos layer by layer, the purpose is to let the tea embryos absorb the aroma of jasmine, of course, the more times, the more thorough the aroma absorption, the more fragrant the jasmine tea is made, of course, the higher the price, which is easy to understand.
Jasmine snow buds
So according to this, when we buy jasmine tea, if the price is very low, such as tens of yuan a pound of jasmine tea, and the fragrance smells very fragrant at the same time, it is questionable, where does such a fragrant fragrance come from? Dozens of yuan a pound of jasmine tea can have the aroma of high-grade jasmine tea, will the merchant lose money to sell to you? There is only one answer, and that is the addition of cheap flavors. Therefore, it is not recommended to buy jasmine tea with a low price and a very strong aroma
NO4: Flowers are not good tea
Although this point has nothing to do with whether or not to add flavor, it is also a factor in determining the quality of jasmine tea as a purchase of jasmine tea. Many people who do not know much about jasmine tea have a misunderstanding about jasmine tea, believing that the more jasmine flowers in dry tea, the better the tea, and on the contrary, the less jasmine in dry tea, the better the quality of the tea. Because jasmine tea is completed, it needs to separate the dregs that are released by the aroma and shrink, that is, "flowering". Flowering must be timely, fast and sieved, although the sensory quality requirements allow the finished flower tea to "contain a small amount of dried jasmine flowers", but the less the better. Therefore, when we buy jasmine tea, we smell the tea and look at the tea embryos, not to see how much jasmine there is.
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Jasmine is a good tea to drink in the summer, but in the face of the uneven quality of jasmine tea on the market, we must have the basic knowledge of identifying the quality of jasmine tea, otherwise we will be deceived. The article introduces how to identify jasmine tea with flavor from three aspects: tea, brewing tea and price, hoping to bring help to everyone!
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