If you are a novice and don’t know which kind of tea is good Pu’er tea, then I suggest you buy tea with good-looking tea soup and comfortable drinking. Before you establish the standard of what is good Pu'er tea, buy the special products of those big manufacturers, such as Cang'er from Xiaguan, Zhongfa, special grade, etc., 7572, 7542, 7672, 7262 from Menghai, etc. These products are all It has been tested for a long time and is produced by a large factory with relatively stable quality. But to be wordy, you must buy the genuine product! Especially Menghai products, the packaging is too sloppy, just wrapped in tissue paper or kraft paper. You have to know that tissue paper costs 3 cents a piece, and kraft paper costs less than 1 cent. Menghai's products have always had a high unit price, about twice as high as similar products, which has resulted in a large number of fake teas. Many tea lovers who only look at the packaging and are only interested in the XX seal rather than the real tea have suffered losses. The ones from Xiaguan are better, and the price is not high (like the high-end 8613, which is the retail price of 52 - the manufacturer's recommended retail price), and a cardboard box (pinfa, Cang'er, Jinsi, etc.) is added. etc.), counterfeiting is both unprofitable and troublesome.
It’s good to have an expert with you, but if you don’t have an expert around you, then you’d better go to some more reputable stores where you can try a few more teas. There is no expert by your side, but you must have the words of an expert in your ears. Frequently visit forums to see what better teas everyone is discussing recently, and get some price and other information. There is another very special thing about Pu'er tea, that is, it is so special that each pile, each batch, each year, and different tea regions are not uniform. Don’t think that only big factories such as Menghai Tea Factory, Xiaguan Tea Factory, Mengku Rongshi, Changtai, etc. can produce good tea. For example, some less famous tea factories and even retail tea houses may produce amazing tea at very low prices. It is impossible for a small factory to sell tea at the price of a large factory. Otherwise, we will not have to worry about running out of old tea in the future (it will all be stored in the warehouse and cannot be sold). Generally, small factories launch their own high-end products with very good raw materials, and the ingredients are extremely pure and will not be blended with other teas. Explain the blending: different teas are mixed according to a certain proportion. For example: 1. Tea blending at different times of the year. For the sake of relatively stable product quality or to pursue a certain taste that you think is better, mix teas from different periods. Make the blend. 2. Blending old tea with new tea is mainly about pursuing the fusion of the advantages between new tea and old tea. Menghai’s 7742 is about 3 years old tea with new tea. The effect is good and affordable. In fact, the price of 7742 is high, but The quality is indeed good. 3. The blending of different grades of tea, such as the covering of Cang'ertuo tea in Xiaguan, and the covering of most teas in Menghai are made of high-grade tea, and the inside is a little inferior in grade. Mainly for aesthetics. 4. Tea blending from different tea regions, such as Jingmai blending with tea from nearby tea mountains, has similar taste but greatly reduces the cost, which is more affordable. Going back to the previous discussion, small factories generally don’t blend tea: because they don’t have many high-end products, they don’t receive much tea. Moreover, leaders are responsible for the purchase (a tea factory only has a few people, all of whom are leaders), and the quality and origin of the tea collected are guaranteed. In addition, the output is small and the production is more careful (our own portal product). Especially in the process of drying, the small amount of tea is relatively guaranteed. The quality of sun-dried tea is much better than that of roasted green tea. Especially those teas that are over-roasted green are not suitable for making Pu'er tea, because at high temperatures, the active enzymes that are the basis of Pu'er tea aging have been destroyed, and tea that is over-roasted green can only be made into Yunnan green tea. No collection value. However, the quality of these small factories is not very stable. A batch of good tea often disappears after it comes out. It is best if an expert selects and recommends it to you. It is cheap and has good quality.
If you want to buy Pu'er tea for collection, it is recommended that you buy better green tea. Otherwise, no matter how long you keep it, bad green tea will not turn into good old tea. Only good green tea can. It will become good old tea, but it is not guaranteed. The key depends on the conditions of your storage.
The following are the opinions of several experts:
The four key points of Liao Yirong's "Taste of Pu'er Tea" are purity, purity, integrity and Qi
The first key is to have a clear smell Its taste
No matter whether the Pu'er tea is raw or ripe, new or old, good or bad, shape or price, the first thing to smell is that after decades of aging and fermentation, the tea will definitely have an old taste. , but there should be no musty smell (a musty smell means that the storage space is damp or too humid and not ventilated). The so-called "old but not moldy" means that the old smell will be ventilated and dissipated when the tea is awakened. The musty smell is caused by the deterioration of tea quality and the moldy smell caused by moisture from the inside out. Tea has lost its true beauty when it is changed or flavored (adding chrysanthemums to brew it), so it is very important to smell it. If 50-year-old tea smells musty and unnatural, it will be useless even if it is 100 years old. , so you must have a concept, you would rather buy young tea that you can drink slowly, rather than buy old tea that is hard to drink.
The second tip is to simply identify its color
Before brewing the tea, smell it to see if it is clean and fresh (no odor or smell), and then brew it When Pu'er tea is stored under normal conditions, even if it is stored for 30, 50, or even 100 years, the color of the tea (tea soup) will never turn black or produce a weird taste.
Many business owners or consumers today have the misconception that if Pu'er tea is kept for a long time, the color of the tea soup after brewing will turn black or inky. In fact, there is only one truth, and that is, the older it gets, the more fragrant it becomes. , after aging and fermentation, Pu'er turns from light yellow to jujube red. The longer the tea smells, the stronger and thicker it becomes. It is slightly oily and will not turn black. When the newly made raw tea is brewed, it is as fresh and elastic as Taiwanese tea. The soup is golden yellow in color and slightly bitter and astringent in the mouth. This means it needs time to wait for fermentation and oxidation, using the moisture in the air and air circulation. The longer the fermentation oxidation effect occurs, the lower the irritation and the mellower the tea quality (of course, the cost will increase relatively, and in the case of drinking one cake and one cake less, the more you drink, the smoother and better it tastes. Those who cherish tea should respect themselves. Good tea will never be lonely.) Are there many good teas circulating in the market? Besides, isn’t it the patent of those counterfeiters to make up beautiful sales lies? Counterfeiters will naturally make up for it, so the law of good looks, fragrance, and fragrance must be applied first before negotiating the price. Otherwise, the counterfeiters will love it if they encounter a bargain hunter! (Don’t talk about quality, let’s talk about price first.) Authenticity and sustainability of business are mutually reinforcing. It’s not that if you like to bargain, I will raise the price to let you kill. In fact, people who know how to cherish their customers are richer. Once again, I would like to tell you sincerely that the quality of Pu'er tea is no accident, nor is it due to age or