丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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The day before yesterday is clear, and the next solar term will be the valley rain.
Listening to a friend from Wuyishan, by about the 20th, the early seeds of rock tea will begin to be harvested.
The friend was from a tea class, a technician for many years, and on the phone the other day, he was not embarrassed to mention it, saying that someone had asked him a question, which made him suddenly difficult.
As soon as I heard it, I became interested, and I thought to myself, what kind of problem is it, so that the friend who is like "tea learning control" is entangled into this look.
As soon as he finished speaking, I laughed very unceremoniously.
It turned out that the other party was a novice in the tea industry, and as soon as he came up, he asked him, "What is rock tea?" ”
It is conceivable that the friend who specializes in research must have turned thousands of times in his heart, and then took out a speech-like posture and introduced it endlessly.
However, the world of the Great Gods is still far away from ordinary people. Guess also guessed, he talked about a bunch of professional terms, novices not only can not understand, but also will be blindfolded.
Therefore, the friend on the other end of the phone will be so depressed when talking about this stubble!
But in my opinion, this beginner's introductory question, to clarify the following simple four points is OK.
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First, where is rock tea produced?
Rock tea, full name Wuyi rock tea, from the official definition of the concept:
Rock tea is an oolong tea made by selecting suitable tea varieties for breeding and cultivation under the unique natural ecological environment conditions of Wuyi Mountain, and is made by unique traditional processing technology, with the quality characteristics of rock rhyme (rock bone flower fragrance).
According to the national standard, those produced within a number of boundaries of Wuyishan City can be registered as "Wuyi Rock Tea".
Therefore, when I saw some tea friends asking whether the rock tea produced in Anxi was good, I directly replied to a sentence, Anxi does not produce rock tea, and Wuyi Mountain produces rock tea.
Figuring out what a "geographical indication protection product" is, nine times out of ten fake teas on the market will immediately be untenable.
Rock tea is produced in Wuyi Mountain. But good rock tea, but also pay attention to the mountain field.
Friends around me often joke that rock tea, like Sun Monkey, is a tea that jumps out of a rock crevice.
In fact, this joke also has some truth.
Rock rock has tea, non-rock does not tea.
Wuyi rock tea pays attention to specific production areas, with zhengyan as the top.
Referring to the scope of the Zhengyan Mountain Field, according to Teacher Chen's classic explanation, "The tea you see when you buy tickets at the Wuyi Mountain scenic spot is Zhengyan tea." ”
The microclimate within the Wuyi Mountain Scenic Area is suitable for the growth of tea plants, and the local soil containing weathered rock is a kind of gravel soil, which is the premise of "rock rhyme".
With Zhengyan tea as the center of the circle all the way out, there are also half rock, outer mountains and other sayings.
The closer you get to the core of the rock, the more pronounced the rock rhyme becomes. The reverse is getting fainter.
For example, in the semi-rock area, the amount of weathered rock contained in the soil is less than that of the positive rock, and the rock charm is not as obvious as the positive rock tea.
And many of the outer camellias planted in the yellow mud land do not have a trace of rock rhyme.
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Second, which ones does rock tea include?
Wuyi rock tea commonly seen on the market includes daffodils, cinnamon, and Da Hong Pao.
Daffodils, orchids are clearly scented, and the soup is mellow and soft.
Cinnamon, a very popular variety in the rock tea industry, the cinnamon flavor is obvious, and the soup has a slight spicy feeling.
Da Hong Pao, now 99% of the hands can be bought is blended With Da Hong Pao, you can drink a variety of comprehensive charm fused together.
Of course, there are many varieties of rock tea, like the tea friend mentioned earlier, who can report the name of the dish in one breath and say hundreds of different rock tea varieties.
Such as Iron Luohan, White Chicken Crown, Beidou, Bird Tongue, Water Golden Turtle, Half Sky Demon, Huang Guanyin, Golden Peony, Mei Zhan, Qi Dan, Short-legged Oolong...
However, novice tea customers are new to rock tea, it is recommended to roughly distinguish between daffodils and cinnamon.
After practicing the basics, try other varieties.
Because, in rock tea, daffodils, cinnamon, and Da Hong Pao are the mainstream of the market. Combined, they are estimated to account for nine out of ten of the entire rock tea market share.
The remaining varieties have less planting surface, less yield, and limited popularity.
To put it simply, when you want to buy a cinnamon, the choice of noodles is very rich, basically Wuyi Mountain has a tea farmer/tea merchant who makes rock tea, and cinnamon is reserved.
And like the white chicken crown, the choice of noodles is not as rich as the daffodil cinnamon da hong pao, and the probability of picking a good tea is relatively low.
For novices, if you want to drink rock tea, drink mainstream varieties first, absolutely safe and not easy to mistake!
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Third, how is rock tea made?
The process of Wuyi rock tea is very complicated to say.
For a tea drinker, learn to distinguish whether a rock tea is good or not. that's the point.
In the case that you do not plan to learn tea from a teacher, and do not personally go to the tea factory to operate by hand, just listen to a few ears, and you can't learn the process of rock tea at all.
For example, when we usually eat eggs, no one is willing to investigate deeply, which hen gave birth to this egg.
To briefly introduce the rock tea process, it is roughly divided into two parts, one is to make green, and the other is to roast.
Do it in moderation, but don't make it too cooked.
Wuyi rock tea is oolong tea, which belongs to semi-fermented tea, which is too cooked to make green, which can easily lead to rock tea drinking black tea flavor, and the quality is very bad.
And roasting, pay attention to baking thoroughly.
As for whether to achieve the purpose of "baking thoroughly", whether to bake one fire, two fires, or three fires, it is purely dependent on the freedom of each family.
When tea lovers buy rock tea, they can neither buy the kind of mao tea that has not been roasted from beginning to end (which does not reflect the characteristics of rock tea), nor can they hastily pursue the heavier the fire, the better (the sick fire tea baked into charcoal is not suitable for drinking)!
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Fourth, how does rock tea taste?
Many people have many misunderstandings when they first hear about rock tea roasting.
For example, the rock tea is too heavy, and it has a charcoal fire flavor and too heavy taste;
For example, rock tea is a strong, mouth-wrenching, stimulating tea;
For another example, the feeling of drinking rock tea is like drinking a liquid version of barbecue, although it tastes good, but it is useless to drink more...
In fact, these ideas are all wrong.
First of all, the fire of rock tea is not heavy.
Or do you wait until the fire has faded before drinking, try it?
Secondly, rock tea is not a heavy taste tea.
It is recommended to reform the method of brewing tea, do not throw more than 10 grams of tea at a time, and then suffocate for two or three minutes before the soup comes out.
When brewing tea with a lid bowl, according to the ratio of 1:13 tea (110ml standard lid bowl, 8 grams of tea), coupled with fast water brewing, there will be absolutely no strong taste.
Finally, the real flavor of rock tea is represented by the aroma of rock bone flowers, fragrant and sweet, rather than the so-called charcoal flavor!
Let's focus on explaining, what is "rock bone"?
Rock bone, that is, rock rhyme, describes a kind of "bone fish feeling" when drinking rock tea, when the soup water enters the throat, you can intuitively feel that there are many contents in the tea soup.
The rock rhyme of Wuyi rock tea can make people feel the unique mountain field charm, the taste is mellow, and the sweetness is powerful. You can even feel that the tea soup has a "bone fish feeling" and will not be thin and tasteless.
The smell is clear and the bone fish is a hard indicator of the flavor of a high-quality rock tea!
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The process of introducing rock tea can be carried out in different categories.
Chapter 1, Varieties.
Chapter 2, Yamabata Chapter.
Chapter 3, Craftsmanship.
At the end, what kind of flavor can be made by combining the first three and brewing rock tea with good craftsmanship in the mountain field?
In the tea drinking experience of the predecessors, it has been summarized.
Rock bone floral fragrance, fragrant and sweet life!
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