What is the flavor of tea?

1, green taste

is the original taste of plants in nature, the main reason for the tea with green taste is the sunshine, do green, kill the green insufficient, of course, there are other reasons: picking the tea green is too young or dewy when the tea green, or in the process of making improper mixing caused by the damage to the leaf tissue, resulting in the accumulation of water.

2, sour taste

Part of the fermented tea in the killing, kneading, drying, need to be cooled, so that it is post-fermentation, the next day for the cloth ball kneading and re-drying. If in the post-fermentation stage, due to the excessive water content of the first dry tea leaves, resulting in microbial activity, the tea will appear sour flavor phenomenon. Of course, the sourness like sour fruit flavor caused by the freshness of the tea broth is not in this category.

3, bitter and astringent

The tea itself will have a bitter taste, and if there is a bitter and astringent flavor, mainly depends on whether the entrance to the mouth after the rapid melt away. If it has not been able to disperse, then the tea should not be a successful tea. The main reason for the bitterness and astringency is that the fresh leaves are young and tender, the sun green is not enough, do not do the green properly, or summer tea.

4, burnt taste

The burnt taste of tea flavor should be caused by improper greening and baking. Tea in the greening process, the temperature and time to grasp improperly, resulting in too high a temperature, too long, the finished product that has a burnt flavor. Baking process temperature is too high, too fast, do not pay attention to the case of frequent mixing, will also often appear burnt flavor.

5, smoke

Tea smoke flavor, mainly in the baking tea stove leakage so that the tea stained with smoke. The purpose of baking is not only to reduce the moisture content to ensure that the dryness of the tea, but also baked high flavor mellow tea quality.

Improper handling of roasted tea leaves, too high a temperature or too long, the tea leaves fall into the fuel to produce smoke and fire rise, tea inhalation of burnt smoke, or the production of the environment there are other smoke, are all the reasons for smoke, affecting the flavor of the tea.