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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"Incense" is the symbol of the ancient celebrities.
Look at the sachets hanging from their waists when they go out, and the incense burners lit in the bedroom, all of which show their elegant life.
Everyone's favorite aroma is different, and each incense seems to have its own unique personality.
Or quiet, or elegant, or gentle, or like jade, or deep, or delicate...
People with different personalities and the current state of mind have a suitable aroma.
For example, sitting alone in the lake pavilion drinking tea, you can light a quiet incense, not only can make tea drinking more ritualistic, but also not easy to destroy the mood of tea tasting.
If you smell a strong and stimulating taste when drinking tea, the mood of drinking tea will also be greatly affected.
Burn incense and calm the mind.
The good smell of aroma, only joy is delivered to us.
A delicate incense burner, emitting a fresh and unworldly fragrance, the body and mind are happy.
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Drinking tea and smelling incense is something that most tea lovers are keen on.
Because good tea contains rich aromatic substances, close to the tip of the nose, you can feel the aroma of tea.
Some people like to smell the fragrance because the rich and fresh tea aroma can give themselves a deeper understanding of this tea.
Some people think that smelling incense is a very unnecessary thing.
They say that when you drink tea, you drink tea, smell what incense, pretentious, can't drink tea be simpler?
belch......
How smelling incense has become pretentious, I really can't understand.
Smelling the fragrance can not only smell the aromatic molecules emitted by the good tea, but also allow us to initially judge the quality of a tea.
Once, when I drank a bubble of "beef" sent by a friend, when I smelled the incense, the cinnamon aroma as a variety of incense was very faint and almost negligible.
If you don't say that this is bullpen pit cinnamon, who would have thought that such a rock tea with almost no cinnamon aroma is cinnamon?
It's hard to tell.
On its lid, in addition to the gardenia floral fragrance, it is caramel incense, and the cinnamon fragrance is pitifully small.
Just by smelling the lid, you can conclude that this "beef" is a fake.
It can be seen that the aroma of a tea can convey useful information to us and let us have a certain understanding of its quality.
In addition, when smelling the incense, you smell some miscellaneous odors, which bring about an unpleasant feeling.
This situation can only show that there is a problem with the quality of this brewed tea.
Smelling incense can avoid drinking bad quality tea into the stomach, and be more responsible for our Five Visceral Temple.
So, have you changed your mind about smelling incense?
Smelling the fragrance is actually one of the ways we understand a tea, and we can initially judge the quality of the tea, which is not useless.
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When smelling tea, you can smell the dry tea, smell the lid incense, smell the hanging wall incense and smell the bottom of the leaves.
Smelling dry tea is actually smelling the taste of tea leaves that have not yet been brewed, dry and refreshing.
Good tea with outstanding quality, dry tea aroma is refreshing, fresh, and does not have a miscellaneous odor.
For example, white tea.
When brewing spring shoumei, you can smell the smell of sun-dried reeds when you smell dry tea, which contains the sweet smell that emanates when the rhizome is broken.
Let's say rock tea.
Drink a bubble of daffodils, dry tea with a refreshing caramel aroma and elegant floral fragrance, the smell is extremely rich.
And poor quality tea, when smelling incense, you can smell the unpleasant, unnatural taste.
For example, a silver needle that is damp and runs away.
Once, due to negligence, there was a small jar of white silver needles placed in the corner of the shelf and not drunk in time.
When I finally found it, I opened the lid of the tin can, and a chocolate-like smell penetrated my nose and almost choked.
That smell does not belong to white tea at all, and appears on the silver needle, which can only prove that there is a problem with the quality of the tea because of moisture.
In the face of dry tea with a peculiar smell of white tea, or do not continue to drink.
The next step is to smell the lid.
Aromatic substances are released in large quantities under the stimulation of boiling water.
Part of it will be wrapped in the lid of the bowl, and part of it will be wrapped in a thick and slippery tea soup and fall into the cup of justice.
The aroma of the lid can be divided into a top note, a middle note, and a tail note.
To put it more colloquially, smell the incense while it is hot, smell the incense when the lid is warm to the touch, and smell the incense after the lid bowl is cooled.
Smelling the incense at different times, the aromatic substances felt are different.
Feel it carefully and have a different rhyme.
After that, you can smell the hanging wall incense, that is, the aroma adhered to the wall of the cup.
As mentioned earlier, most of the aromatic substances in the tea leaves will be wrapped in thick and slippery soup, so pour the tea soup into the tea cup, and the wall of the cup will leave an aroma.
After drinking the tea soup in the cup, you can pick up the cup and lean close to the tip of your nose to smell the aroma and feel the afterglow.
Finally, you can smell the bottom of the leaf.
The bottom of the leaf actually hides a lot of secrets.
When a cup of tea is finished, you can directly lift the lid bowl to smell it.
Feel if it smells and smells fresh.
Sometimes, the bottom of the leaf is also the key to exposing the quality of the tea.
Some flavors do not fall into the water, do not stick to the lid, but only hide in the bottom of the leaf, smell the bottom of the leaf to see the true face of a tea.
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When smelling incense, you need to pay attention to some small details.
For example, before smelling the aroma of dry tea, it is very important to warm the cup of the pot.
Hot pot warm cup, that is, with boiling water to cover the bowl and the fair cup blanched again.
In this way, some odors that are difficult to wash away in clean water can be removed, and the taste of the soup water that follows is ensured.
After the lid bowl is boiled, put the dry tea into the lid bowl, gently shake up and down three times, open the small mouth of about 30 degrees, and smell closely.
The temperature in the lid bowl is conducive to the release of aromatic substances, and the aroma is more abundant at this time.
If you put dry tea into a cold lid bowl, the feeling will become less profound when you smell the aroma.
For example, when smelling incense, it is not recommended to talk while smelling incense.
Aroma is a substance that is easily affected.
When one aroma collides with another, it will appear disorganized and boneless.
The tea aroma is also like this.
If you have eaten heavier foods before, such as garlic and durian, the smell of these foods is relatively heavy.
After eating these foods, smelling the incense while talking and smelling the incense will have a great impact on the feeling of tea aroma.
When smelling the incense, feel the aroma of tea seriously, and when the smell is over, you can speak freely and talk about your views on the aroma.
For example, when smelling the wall incense, it is recommended to take your own teacup and smell it.
When some people smell the wall incense, they will pick up the fair cup and smell it, which is not a good habit.
The fair cup is used to divide the soup, if someone picks it up and smells it, it will make people feel unhygienic.
To avoid embarrassment, just smell your own teacup.
Finally, to feel the rich aroma of tea, it is recommended to brew tea with boiling water.
The aromatic substances in the tea leaves, their boiling point is high and low, brewing with boiling water can make the aromatic substances with high boiling points released, making the tea fragrant and fragrant.
Water with too low a temperature to achieve such a comprehensive performance!
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Those who have just started drinking tea will be impressed by the aroma of good tea.
The aroma of good tea is pure natural, it is rich and sweet, it is quiet and delicate...
Smell the body and mind comfortably.
A good smell is actually a good medicine to heal the soul.
If you are upset in your heart, you don't know how to enlighten yourself.
Then go to the sparsely populated Taimushan Alpine Tea Garden to stay, smell the tea, smell the fresh air, smell the grass and trees.
The mountain wind blew in the face, and all the sorrow dissipated in the wind.
We loved drinking tea and loved its good smell of tea.
Smelling incense is not pretentious, but natural.
After all, good-looking, good-smelling things, everyone will pursue and chase.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.