How to identify the quality of Anxi Tieguanyin?

Feeling in the mouth: After the entrance of the tea soup, do not rush into the abdomen, you can turn it lightly in the mouth, let the tea flow throughout the mouth, let all the taste nerves feel carefully, at this time, the advantages and disadvantages of tea will be magnified, if you drink good tea, it will make people feel wonderful, and the mouth is full of tea fragrance; If the bitterness is obvious, it will be further amplified; In addition, many Tieguanyin will have a rough feeling, that is, it feels as if a rough layer is covered in a certain part of the mouth (generally the tongue, the root of the tongue), if the rough feeling is not obvious and disappears in a short time, then it should be fine; However, if the coarseness is strong and does not go away for a long time, it will make people feel uncomfortable, which is also difficult to make a good tea.

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The tea soup slip mouth still has a sense of blockage, which can often be felt when swallowing, and the high-grade Tieguanyin tea soup requires a slip mouth, swallowing without dragging mud and water, and the feeling is instantaneous into the abdomen, clean and neat; However, the tea soup with a strong sense of blockage does not have such a wonderful experience when it enters the throat, and it is generally felt that there is a slight roughness, and it is difficult for this kind of tea to have a high grade. A discussion about the rhyme of sweetness.

The sweet aftertaste is one of the most charming characteristics of Tieguanyin, and the sweet aftertaste of good tea is still fragrant for a few hours, which makes people shout wonderful! However, Tieguanyin's Huiganhui rhyme comes in a variety of styles:

Sweetness: Whether it is lightly fermented tea or medium-fermented tea, high-quality products will be sweet in the throat immediately after drinking, and then rise and spread to the entire mouth, which will not recede for a long time; Generally speaking, it is better to be strong and strong, but as long as it can be clearly felt, this kind of sweetness feels very natural; The key lies in the durability - some Tieguanyin, tea aroma, taste and other indicators are good, but the sweet aftertaste time is short, basically finished drinking, and the grade of this kind of tea will not be high.

The quality characteristics of Anxi Tieguanyin are: tea strips are curled, fat and round, heavy and even, the color is sand green, and the overall shape resembles a dragonfly head, a spiral body, and a frog's legs. After brewing, the soup color is golden and bright like amber, with a natural and rich orchid fragrance, mellow and sweet taste, commonly known as "rhyme".

1. Appearance: the cord is fat, round and round, heavy, the branch heart is hard, the branch scalp is neat, most of the leaves are curled to the back of the leaves, the color is black and oily, and the sand green is obvious (in the new process, most of the red borders have been removed).

2. Endoplasm: The aroma is rich and long-lasting, the rhyme is obvious, with orchid fragrance or raw peanut kernel flavor, coconut fragrance and other fragrances; The tea soup is golden, orange and yellow, the taste is mellow and sweet, slightly honeyed, fresh and sweet.

3. Leaf bottom: the branch body is round, the stem skin is red and bright, the petiole is wide and thick (palm leaf pedicle), the leaf is thick and soft, and the leaf surface is wavy, which is called "satin surface".

4. The most core feature: dry tea is heavy and dark green; The aroma of the tea soup is obvious, with great layers and thickness; The bottom of the leaves should be thick and soft.

Identification of fine Tieguanyin is a profound knowledge, Anxi famous tea master and old tea people can identify the quality of tea by smelling the fragrance, the high can taste where the tea is produced in what village, a few years of tea trees, the characteristics of the outstanding can also taste from the hands of the famous tea master. Laymen can start from "observing the shape, listening to the sound, observing the color, smelling the fragrance, and tasting the rhyme" to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of tea.

Look: high-quality Tieguanyin tea strips are curly, strong knots, heavy, in the shape of a green pedicle and a green belly dragonfly, the color is fresh and moist, the sand is green, the red spots are bright, and the leaves are band hoarfrost.

Listen to the sound: fine tea is tighter than the general tea, the leaf body is heavy, take a small amount of tea leaves and put it into the teapot, you can hear the sound of "dangdang", its sound is crisp and crisp, and the dumb one is second.

Color: The color of the soup is golden, bright and clear, the bottom of the leaf is thick and bright after the tea is brewed (one of the characteristics of Tieguanyin tea, the back of the leaf is curved), with a silk luster, which is the top, and the soup color is dark red.

Smell: The fragrance of the high-quality Tieguanyin tea soup is fresh, and the cup is lightly smelled when the lid is opened, and its unique aroma is fragrant and fragrant, and it is rich and long-lasting, which makes people feel intoxicated.

Rhyme: The ancients had a wonderful saying that "before tasting the taste of nectar, first smell the holy fragrance". Take a sip, the root of the tongue is lightly turned, and you can feel the mellow and sweet tea soup; Swallow slowly, with a dense aftertaste and endless charm.

As for the unique "Guanyin rhyme", what is the meaning? So far, the tea people have not been able to explain clearly, so they have to leave it to the future generations to judge, which is also the charm of Anxi Tieguanyin.

Look at its color, smell its taste, and taste its fragrance.