The earliest known variety of Wuyi rock tea should be Da Hong Pao.
Friends who have been to Wuyi Mountain have been to Da Hong Pao, a must-visit attraction for tourists. The six mother trees on the half wall stopped picking in 2006. Among these six mother trees, according to research, there are three varieties: Beidou, Qidan and Finch Tongue.
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Once, Wang Sledgehammer brought a friend over for tea and talked about the big red robe. Friend asked: What kind of variety is Da Hong Pao?
This is an easy question to answer. Today's article is used as an answer. Sledgehammer, you saw this article to forward to that buddy, thank you!
Nowadays, everyone's understanding of the Da Hong Pao mainly has the following mainstream cognitions:
1. The original Da Hong Pao tree species is no longer considerable. It has disappeared with the passage of time.
2. The six mother trees in Kowloon, as mentioned above, have been stopped.
3. Synonymous with Wuyi rock tea in a broad sense. In a broad sense, all Wuyi rock tea can be collectively referred to as Da Hong Pao, and the full name of the current skill inheritor is: Wuyi Rock Tea (Da Hong Pao) production skill inheritor. From this title, Da Hong Pao can be broadly defined as Wuyi Rock Tea
4, commodity Da Hong Pao - that is, the blending of Da Hong Pao: with several different kinds of rock tea as the base, after reasonable blending, the formation of Wuyi rock tea, known as the blending of Da Hong Pao. The production of the blending of the Da Hong Pao is a great test of the skill of the tea maker, and I think it is even more a test of the tea maker's cognition and understanding of various varieties. How to make several base materials with different flavors, through blending, give play to their respective strengths, and influence each other, take their own strengths, hide their own shortcomings, and achieve the flavor of the tea to the extreme, such a requirement really needs deep skill support. The ingredients and proportions of the Da Hong Pao, as well as the blending method, are the secrets of every rock tea master.
5, pure breed Da Hong Pao: popular on the market, can be known as pure breed Da Hong Pao, generally Beidou, Qi Dan these two varieties of tea. Just take this opportunity to mention the aroma of the varieties of Beidou and Qidan: the aroma of the Varieties of Beidou is Congxiang and Woody; the aroma of Qidan's varieties is osmanthus and zongye.
Da Hong Pao is synonymous with Wuyi Rock Tea, although we can't drink the mother tree now, but we can often drink some blended Da Hong Pao, feel the grasp of different tea makers on Rock Tea, just like communicating with them in the air, it is also a great pleasure in life. Just like dismantling the blind box, the model has surprises, isn't it happy?
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