Knowledge of Pu 'er Tea Tasting —— Four Terms Related to Water

One or four water-related nouns in Pu 'er tea tasting knowledge

watermanship

It refers to every different feeling that tea soup brings to the oral cavity. Besides sour, sweet, bitter and astringent, there are seven aspects to judge the quality of Pu 'er tea, including smoothness, liveliness, sand, thickness, liveliness, sand and thickness, among which smoothness, melting, liveliness and thickness are positive characteristics. For example, "melting in the mouth" means that the bitter and astringent taste changes quickly.

channel

Waterway is an aspect of water, which refers to the feeling that tea soup flows through the mouth and throat when drinking tea.

It is the feeling of swallowing tea soup on the whole swallowing channel. However, this is just a folk term, and there is no standard official statement. But in the tea review, it will be expressed by the fineness and thickness of the water channel.

The taste of water

Refers to a kind of tea soup with light taste, less tea taste and more water taste. Fresh tea is easy to produce water flavor, and it is easy to produce water flavor in the final stage of drinking tea. After repeated brewing, the phenomenon of "sweet tail water" will appear. In fact, the taste of water has already begun to appear at this time, which is different from the sweetness of tea itself. What you drink is the sweetness of water.

waterline

When it comes to the way of water injection, Pu 'er tea has a saying that "fragrance depends on brewing, and soup depends on suspension", which means to make tea soup fragrant and fast, and to make tea soup fragrant and soft, it is necessary to inject water at a fixed point. The waterline of Pu 'er cooked tea should be soft (low hanging and fixed-point injection), and the waterline of raw tea should be changeable, with richer aroma and taste.