Quality identification of jasmine tea

Jasmine tea is a natural drink for people to drink, which should be identified mainly by endoplasm and by appearance (appearance).

1. Appearance: evaluated by stripe, color and evenness.

① stripe (famous tea is called styling): it is required to be tight and strong. Famous tea has its own unique requirements, such as Longjing tea requires flat and straight, Biluochun requires curling and delicate, and so on. But generally speaking, spring tea is generally tight and heavy, while summer and autumn tea is lighter, thinner or looser. High-grade tea requires more buds and fat.

② color: scented tea is green tea as the raw material, the general color requires light green, yellow-green, glossy as well, summer and autumn tea is relatively dry and green, autumn tea is better, old tea is gray.

③ evenness: clean and even as good, especially to check non-tea inclusions, such as insects, nails and so on can not be mixed.

2. Endoplasm: endoplasm is the main factor in the quality of jasmine tea, which is identified by aroma, taste, soup color and leaf bottom, which is mainly determined by aroma and taste.

① aroma: judging from the three factors of freshness, concentration and purity, high-quality scented tea has both fresh, strong and pure aroma, which is not only different but also related.

A, freshness: refers to the freshness of the aroma, when reviewing a cup of scented tea, smell the aroma, give people the first impression of freshness? Is it popular to say that the aroma is fresh? High-grade scented tea requires "fresh spirit", fresh spirit is very keen aroma performance, that is, "smell is felt" is a higher performance of fresh, not fresh, old taste is the performance characteristics of low-grade scented tea or old tea.

B, concentration: refers to the bubble resistance of jasmine tea. Long-lasting aroma, bubble-resistant for the concentration of jasmine tea, on the contrary, the aroma is thin, not long-lasting, one bubble has fragrance, the second bubble can not smell the fragrance, the concentration is poor. Generally speaking, the concentration of low-grade scented tea is not as good as that of high-grade scented tea.

C, purity: refers to the purity of the scent of flowers and tea. Such as jasmine tea can not be "through the orchid" or other flower fragrance, tea fragrance can not have smoke scorch and other peculiar smell.

② taste: mainly evaluate the concentration and fresh purity. Taste scented tea with pure and mellow taste. Under normal circumstances, taste and aroma are generally related. The aroma is fresh and tasty; the aroma is strong and the taste is mellow; the aroma is pure and the taste is fine; if you find that the aroma is different, you should carefully identify it in taste.

③ soup color: yellow-green, clear and bright is better, yellow, dark or reddish is inferior.

④ leaf bottom: light green, yellowish green, uniform light is better, rough, uneven, dark or red is inferior.

Customers in the choice and purchase of jasmine tea, as mentioned above, first of all, look at the appearance to meet our requirements (order, color, evenness); in addition, you can also smell the aroma, fresh purity can generally smell, experience can also smell the concentration; then it is best to brew a cup, taste the aroma and taste, can drink fresh and mellow tea flavor, and then see that the tea soup is yellow-green and bright, that must be a good quality scented tea, you can rest assured to buy.