As one of the top ten famous teas in China, coupled with its high picking standards, many buds, tender aroma, soup clear, and mellow taste, Dongting Biluo Spring Tea can be said to be low-key luxury with connotations, I believe that there are not a few tea friends who know her.
Recently, I learned from the press briefing of Suzhou Wuzhong Dongting Mountain Biluochun Tea Festival and Taihu Lake Cultural Tourism Festival that the first batch of Biluochun in 2019 is about to be listed!
【Time to market】
It is expected that on March 20, a small amount of Biluochun in Dongting Mountain, Wuzhong District, Suzhou City, will be mined and listed, and then about a week later, Dongting Mountain Biluochun will be listed in batches, and the busiest time for tea farmers will also come.
【Quality】
Since the beginning of spring this year, the Dongting Dongxishan Biluo Spring Production Area has been full of rain, and the average temperature in February and March is about 1 degree higher than last year, which has laid suitable moisture and temperature conditions for the growth of spring tea.
Therefore, this year's Dongting Mountain Biluo Spring Tea, aroma, taste, soup color, leaf bottom and other quality factors will all be of high quality, and it will not live up to the expectations of many tea friends
【Output】
It is estimated that this year's special grade Dongting Mountain Biluochun output is about 15 tons, an increase of about 15% over last year, and the output of first-class Dongting Mountain Biluochun is about 30 tons, an increase of about 20% over last year.
If the weather is suitable in April, the total output of Biluochun in Dongting Mountain is expected to reach about 130 tons, an increase of more than 20% over last year.
【Price】
It is expected that this year, the sales price of the brand enterprise special first-class Dongting Mountain Biluochun production area is more than 4500 yuan per 500 grams.
In addition, this year, some leading enterprises of Dongting Mountain Biluochun will choose the small leaf seeds and young shoots of the high-quality high-fragrance group in the unique tea garden environment of Shenshanwu, and make a small amount of high-quality Dongting Mountain Biluochun tea through the exquisite skills of the tea master to put on the market, and the price of some special treasures will reach 12,000-18,000 yuan per 500 grams.
On March 15, the market price per gram of gold was 365 yuan, and at this price, 500 grams of gold reached 182,500 yuan. In contrast, the high-quality Dongting Biluo Spring Tea that has not yet been listed can be said to be "as expensive as gold".
Some friends may wonder if it is not tea? How is this Biluochun so expensive!
The main reason is also that she is "precious".
Biluochun is a kind of roasted green tea, and all green teas made according to the Biluochun process can be called "Biluochun".
However, from the point of origin, the origin of Dongting Biluochun approved by the State Administration of Quality Supervision and Inspection is limited to the tea production area within the two administrative areas of Dongshan Town (Dongting Dongshan) and Jinting Town (Dongting Xishan) in Wuzhong District, Suzhou City.
That is to say, only the Biluochun produced by Suzhou DongxiShan is the "Dongting Biluochun".
(Schematic map of Dongting Biluochun origin area)
Biluochun produced in the east and west mountains will have a comprehensive anti-counterfeiting logo on the outer packaging.
Do not underestimate this comprehensive anti-counterfeiting logo, it is unique to Dongting Mountain Biluochun, only the origin is the Biluochun tea produced by Dongxi mountain, only eligible to post this logo.
Biluochun in Sichuan, Hunan and other places, and even the close neighbors of Dongshan, the Wangshan Biluochun introduced from Dongshan in the 1980s, although the pedigree is also pure enough, and the frying method is also learned from Dongshan, but the name can only be called "Biluochun", can not be called "Dongting Mountain Biluochun", and can not post this comprehensive anti-counterfeiting logo.
Tea farmers often say: Tea leaves are hour grass, three days early is a treasure, three days late into grass.
The earliest mined tea leaves are also known as head picking. The tea buds picked at the head are very small, the yield is very low, and the price is the most expensive, and some tea merchants also need about 3,000 yuan a pound to buy at the farmer's home. Sometimes the difference in the picking period is about three days, and the price difference is more than a thousand.
Biluo spring tea is picked around the spring equinox every year, and the valley rain ends before and after, and the picking time is more than 20 days.
In these more than 20 days, the tea farmers in Suzhou's Dongxi Mountains went up the mountain every morning to pick tea leaves, picked them up, and fried them on the same day, not overnight tea.
Rigorous screening, intense production, hand-kneading, meticulous craftsmanship... Only when each link is closely interlocked can such a high-quality tea be made.
In the market, we often hear: a pound of good green tea needs to pick 30,000-50,000 buds, and that a good pound of Biluochun contains so many bud heads?
As we all know, the tea buds of Biluochun are very delicate, and it is necessary to use 68,000 to 74,000 buds to fry a pound of good Biluochun, if it is a particularly valuable Biluochun, sometimes it can reach about 90,000 buds, which is equivalent to 1 gram of Biluochun at least 136 buds!
According to picking one bud head at a time, a brew of 4 to 5 grams of Biluochun needs to be picked 544-680 times on the branches with both hands, and a pound of tea needs to be picked 68,000 times.
Now you know where the tender taste of Biluochun comes from, right?
The delicate tea buds and the slightly rough hands of the farmers seem to be thousands of miles apart, but at this moment, it seems to be made in heaven.
Because of its picking, picking, and stir-frying methods, Biluochun adopts the traditional way of artificial, which ensures the shape of the buds and leaves and the quality of the tea, but it also determines the high cost of authentic Biluochun.
Here Xiaobian, for you to exclusively reveal the cost of a pound of authentic Biluochun in the place of origin:
(1) Tea tree maintenance costs: Tea tree maintenance costs mainly refer to fertilization, pesticides, and pruning labor, etc., almost converted down to 50 ~ 100 yuan / jin.
(2) Picking labor: 120 yuan / day
The average number of Biluochun tea leaves picked by a person in a day is about 8 or so, that is to say, the labor cost of a pound of Biluochun is 150 yuan / jin. This year, I am afraid that this price has risen again
(3) Master frying cost: 25 yuan / pot
Local Biluochun tea is purely hand-fried, stir-fried tea master fried a pot of almost 25 yuan worker fees, a pound of almost 3 pots, that is 75 yuan / kg cost.
Comprehensive conversion, the naked price cost of a pound of Biluochun is at least about 325 yuan / jin.
Therefore, biluochun that is generally less than 300 yuan / kg cannot be regarded as an authentic origin of biluochun.
Knowing this, do you still think she is expensive?
It is expensive, but also precious!
However, it is also this preciousness that leads to 80% of the Dongting Biluochun on the market is impersonated by other foreign Biluochun, which makes many friends who love tea stupid and confused (of course, it is not that other Biluochun is not good, but with the name of "Dongting Biluochun", the price is more beautiful).