On March 12, West Lake Longjing tea was officially mined.
This week, within the scope of the West Lake Longjing Tea First-class Protected Area, the new teas of various tea farmers have been put on the shelves and sold.
So, how much does it cost to go to Longjing Village and the core tea villages around it and drink a cup of this year's new tea?
This is the most questioned questions the Qianjiang Evening News Gang has received recently.
On March 19, the hourly reporter went to various tea villages as an ordinary Hangzhou tourist.
Let's take a look at how much it costs to drink a cup of Mingqian Longjing new tea in Hangzhou.
Forty or fifty dollars a cup is the norm
Tea farmers say prices are still at their highest levels during this time
In the rain of Wengjia Mountain Village, there are not many pedestrians on the mountain road. Walking on the road, on one side is a misty tea mountain, and on the other side are tea households.
Almost every household can see the words "West Lake Longjing" or "tea" at the door, some of the doors are still dried with freshly picked fresh leaves, and some killing machines have been rolling, and occasionally you can meet tea farmers carrying fresh leaves down the mountain on the road.
The hourly news reporter randomly walked into a tea farmer's home with a "better face".
The façade of the two large open rooms, the two machines at the door are rolling fresh leaves, the left hall is placed with two Chinese round tables, and there are many calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, and the other hall is equipped with high and low vending cabinets, with various tea gift boxes of all sizes.
Watching the reporter enter the door, the boss greeted him and said, sat down to drink a cup, and then decided whether to buy or not, "A cup of forty and fifty have, the higher the price, the better." ”
The reporter asked him as a tourist what is the price of the new tea this year?
The boss did not make an offer at first, but first asked the reporter whether to drink or give gifts?
"If you give gifts, there are different prices, expensive and cheap, this year's new tea is generally two or three thousand a pound to start, and then more expensive, the whole machine or semi-manual is relatively cheap, all handmade is expensive, depending on your needs."
For buying tea or not, the boss does not have special marketing, but all the information is explained in advance.
Seeing the reporter's hesitation about the price, he came again: "Now is definitely the most expensive time, if you drink it yourself, it is recommended that you can wait, the next stage of tea is more, the price will come down a little." You can take a business card and go, see the price is right and buy it again. ”
Further down the hill, at the mouth of the village, there was a tea farmer who was brewing tea, and two people were surrounded by two people to take a video, and one of them asked curiously: "Don't you wear gloves and don't you burn your hands?" ”
The old tea farmer smiled and said, "I have been roasting tea for a lifetime, and I have long been accustomed to it." ”
During the small talk, it was learned that the old tea farmer's surname was Weng, and the two guests were guests of his son's homestay, and they were running into the spring tea season, and they temporarily came to the old tea farmer's house to have a drink.
Asking about the price, the old tea farmer replied: "Drinking a cup is 40 pieces, a cup of about 5 grams of the amount, buying and buying is two or three thousand pieces a pound, are this year's new tea." ”
It seems that forty or fifty yuan a cup is the regular price, the reporter decided to drink a cup to try.
The old tea farmer took a glass, grabbed a small rub of tea leaves and put it in, and said slowly: "To brew West Lake Longjing tea, we generally use boiling water of about 90 degrees." ”
The hot water was soaked for a third, and the old tea farmer let it smell first, a fragrance.
Add the water to 9 points full, only to see the tea slowly spread out, three or four minutes later, most of them sink.
The first brew down, the tea soup is fresh, accompanied by a quiet tea aroma, the two girls from the north feel that the taste is good.
The old tea farmer said that compared with the group species, Longjing No. 43 is lighter, and girls generally like to drink. "Now generally three thousand and one pounds, are semi-machine-based, pure manual is expensive, to seven or eight thousand a pound, and you can only pay for the reservation first, on-site buy is not."
Between tea drinks, the old tea farmers began to talk about their customer groups, such as a repeat customer boss, who called him a few years ago to book the number, and some of them claimed to be mystery buyers. "It was dinner in the evening, I sat at the door to stir-fry tea, this person got out of the car, said the amount to buy, paid the money and left, did not say more, I guess there must be a more prominent figure." 」
When talking about this, the old tea farmer was particularly proud in his tone: "I hope that our tea can also sell at a good price this year." ”
Longjing Village last year's Longjing is also for sale
This year's Ming Dynasty Longjing expensive 100 yuan a cup
In addition to Weng Jia Shan, another reporter came to Longjing Village.
"Boy, do you want tea?" Before he could take a few steps in the village, an aunt came up.
"New tea 1800 pounds." While introducing her own tea leaves, the aunt took the reporter to her own home, and from a small room, took out two white bags of tea leaves, "You smell it, this year's new tea, just on, the amount is not large."
After the reporter showed hesitation, the aunt added another sentence, "Last year's Mingqian tea 800 pounds." ”
Further on, a big sister is greeting tourists in her semi-basement room, "This year's new tea, 2000 pounds." ”
"Some time ago, it was cold, and many tea leaves were frozen, and our family's tea was not in good condition, so it sold cheaply." The eldest sister said that in previous years, her own tea leaves would be more expensive than 1,000 yuan a catty.
The tea leaves of the eldest sister's family are packed in a large white bag, and when you open it, there are a lot of broken leaves, which are indeed as the eldest sister said, and the quality is general.
"3000 pounds!" Another tea farmer is packing tea leaves, and a tea machine is working in a glass room next to it. According to the tea farmer, the gifts received by ordinary people are about two halves of tea, which translates to 750 yuan a can.
Just as the reporter was about to leave, the grandmother of the family chased out and said, "Our family's tea is good, you can drink a cup first." She said that last year's tea leaves 40 yuan a cup, better 50 pieces, this year's new tea to 80 pieces a cup, "last year's tea also sold, 500 a pound." ”
Shops along the main road between the villages asked, the price is high and low, most of them are around 3,000 yuan a pound, expensive five or six thousand yuan, of course, ten thousand pieces of more than a pound are also there, into the door said to drink a cup to 100 yuan.
To sum up, the price of tea is basically the same, ordinary forty or fifty yuan / cup, expensive 80-100 yuan / cup. Many tourists said that compared with the price of the tea house by the West Lake, the price of a cup of tea in Longjing Village seems to be quite cheap.
Finally, remind you that when you buy West Lake Longjing tea, you have to see if there is the latest tea farmer standard this year, all the tea in the West Lake Longjing production area, will be uniformly labeled with this origin logo, everyone can scan the code to know which tea farmer's tea, whether it is the authentic West Lake Longjing.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Zhang Wu Text Editor: Yang Rong Title Image Source: Xinhua News Agency Photo Editor: Cao Liyuan
Source: Author: Qianjiang Evening News Yu Wenwen ShengRui
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