How much is Pu'er tea cake?

Pu'er tea is mainly produced in Xishuangbanna, Lincang, Pu'er and other areas of Yunnan Province. because the original transportation and distribution center is formerly known as Pu'er tea in Pu'er County, it is mostly stored and transported by cake pressing. In history, one cake is 357 grams and seven cakes are picked up. It is convenient to calculate and carry mules and horses. Let's take a look at the price of Pu'er tea cake.

How much is the Pu'er tea cake?

The quality of Pu'er tea cake is different, its price is also very different, first of all, the difference of raw and cooked tea, equivalent to Pu'er raw tea, the price of cooked tea is more expensive, and has a great relationship with the year and origin of tea. If it is cooked tea, the ripe tea of the ancient tree is generally about 500 yuan and 50 grams, while for those medium-quality Pu'er tea cakes, the price of three catties is about 200 yuan, the performance-to-price ratio is still relatively high.

How to choose Pu'er tea cake?

1. Shape observation: a good Pu'er should be a fat, tender and tight knot with complete leaf shape. if it is broken or fine tea foam or a lot of impurities, it is generally inferior. Pu'er loose tea is graded according to its tenderness, from the first grade to the tenth grade, the tenderness is getting higher and higher, generally speaking, the higher the tenderness, the better the quality.

2. Smell: no matter whether a piece of tea is new or old, it should not have other mixed flavors. After a pile of cooked tea, there will be a kind of ripe tea flavor, new raw tea has a delicate and sweet taste, and old tea should have a special old flavor. Good old Pu'er will emit a natural fragrance of camphor, lotus and other fragrance, rather than "smelly divination".

3, try brewing: after opening the soup, look at the leaf bottom (tea residue) after brewing, mainly depends on softness, color and evenness, the leaf quality is soft, fat and tender, elastic, the quality of the leaf bottom is hard and inelastic is not good, the color is brown and red, uniform and good, the color and luster flowers are uneven or blackened, carbonized, or rotten like mud, the quality of the leaf is not good.

4. Try it: a good old Pu'er tea cake should be smooth, mellow, refreshing and peaceful, not irritating, and can flow from the mouth to the throat and stomach without hindrance. If there is numbness and bitterness, it should be combined with the place of origin. Menghai will be bitter, Simao will be astringent.

How do you drink Pu'er tea cake?

1. Pry tea: Pu'er tea cake is a relatively solid cake. Before drinking Pu'er tea, you need to pry down the right amount of tea on the cake. In this step, tea prying tools such as tea needles or tea knives must be prepared, as well as the safety in the process of prying tea.

2. Awakening tea: the tea pried from the tea cake. In general, it is necessary to wake up the tea in order to show the best side of the tea. In fact, Xingcha is to put the tea leaves under the pry in a clean, shady place for a blow. In this process, the environment of awakening tea must be kept clean.

3. Store tea: that is, put the awakened tea in a special vessel. In the process of storing tea, we must avoid peculiar smell, moisture and light, so as not to affect the quality of Pu'er tea.

4. Make tea: put the right amount of tea into the tea or teacup and choose cooked cake or green cake according to your own preferences. What you should pay attention to is that the first tea soup is to wash tea, and it is best not to drink it.