Tieguanyin will return to tradition for a long time."Zhengwei" is still the protagonist of the tea market.

In recent years, the most popular word in the Tieguanyin market is "Zhengwei", and more and more tea lovers begin to miss the original taste of Tieguanyin. Drinking tea is a kind of sensory enjoyment, and returning to the traditional feeling is the inevitable trend of market development. So, what is the traditional Tieguanyin? And how to identify it? To this end, the reporter interviewed Li Chaomin, a senior tea critic and tea processor.

"Zhengwei Tieguanyin is made by traditional technology, with a fermentation degree of about 50%, and full of flowers and fruits, not grass." Li Chaomin told reporters that more than 10 years ago, due to the influence of foreign tea-making technology and population mobility, lightly fermented tea was widely popular in the market. Many people like the tea flavor with a fermentation degree of about 20%, some even lower.

In addition, the process of Tieguanyin is divided into three kinds: stir-frying, blanching and dragging acid. The so-called "stir-frying" means that in the production of tea, the green tea picked at noon the day before is spread thinly on the ground, and then shaken in the evening, and then killed the next morning. Li Chaomin told reporters that the Tieguanyin that is being fried has a unique orchid fragrance. However, the fried dry tea is brown, the color is dark and not fresh, and the visual perception is poor, while the green dry tea is generally green, the color freshness is generally higher, and the visual perception is better. "many people who do not understand tea will think that the green spot looks good. In order to cater to the psychology of consumers, tea farmers will blanch the tea until after noon the next day." Li Chaomin said that although this kind of tea is good-looking, it is much worse in aroma and taste.

During the interview, Li Chaomin brewed two kinds of tea for the reporter at the same time, one kind of spring-flavored tea, the other is Xiaoqing tea. There is indeed an obvious difference in color between the two kinds of tea, and most people will think that the green tea is more beautiful. However, after tasting, the reporter found that the green tea has a green and astringent taste and strong convergence in taste, while Tieguanyin has a soft and smooth taste, delicate water quality and obvious sweet return, which has typical Quan Yin rhyme characteristics.

In addition, the fragrance of Zhengyun tea is faint and long-lasting, the first aroma is light and elegant, the second or third aroma is natural, and it still has an aftertaste after a few soaks. although the first tea aroma of non-Zhengyun tea is seductive, it lacks stamina very quickly.

"the difference between authentic Tieguanyin and Xiaoqing tea lies in the bottom of the leaves, that is, the leaves after soaking." Li Chaomin said that authentic dried tea is not necessarily green, but sand-green and black oil are the most common, not the greener the better, and slowly turn golden after brewing. The texture of the bottom of the leaf shows that the leaf is soft and thick because of the good quality, the edge is often crimped like silk satin, and the texture of the leaf appears rough after the bottom of non-rhyme tea is brewed.

Some old tea customers can't help but ask: why can't a lot of tea on the market drink what it felt like? In fact, now many people will think that the traditional Tieguanyin is tasteless. in order to cater to the taste of these people, tea merchants and tea farmers take great pains to make sour tea, which is obviously sour, but at the same time abandon the unique flavor inherent in Tieguanyin.

Li Chaomin says that people who don't know anything about tea, or those who usually have a heavy taste, will like "non-authentic" tea, while those who are used to eating light tea will like positive taste, because these people have more keen taste cells. can experience the unique flavor of the traditional Tieguanyin. In this year's overall tea situation is not good, a spring but a steady rise in sales.

In his view, Zhengwei Tieguanyin still needs to be continuously promoted. "only tradition can really last long, and Tieguanyin should not lose its traditional charm in order to cater to customers." Li Chaomin said.