How to identify old white tea?

What is making old white tea? It is generally displayed in the form of tea cakes and tea bricks. Before white tea is pressed into cakes, dry tea needs to be softened by steam, then pressed into cakes and dried. According to the traditional process, steaming and softening can be completed in a few seconds, while drying needs to be controlled at a good temperature and dried slowly for 15 hours, so we should not rush into it.

To make old white tea, first sprinkle water, then steam it soft, and then "ferment" at high temperature.

In terms of quality, these two methods have an impact on the quality of white tea. Making old white tea is also easily confused with new white tea. Just made, the taste and appearance are very deceptive. There is no green taste of new white tea, but some characteristics of old white tea, such as mellow and sweet, which has no collection value. The longer the storage time, the stronger the taste.

Identification method 1: visual inspection

1, watch dry tea before brewing.

Old tea: judging from the color of dry tea, old white tea is "colorful" and will turn silver-gray. Leaves that are not completely transformed will appear green, yellow and brown during the transformation process, and will appear black after deep fermentation.

Old-fashioned: if it is single brown or black, it can be roughly judged as "old-fashioned" tea after water spraying and high-temperature fermentation.

2. Observe the leaf bottom after brewing.

Old tea: naturally oxidized and slowly fermented old white tea, mostly yellowish brown or dark brown in color. After brewing, its meridians are clear and active.

Old-fashioned: after artificial fermentation, the veins at the bottom of the leaves are not clear after brewing, which will show an abnormal dark brown color, and the leaves will be dull and rotten when pinched.

Identification method 2: nose smell, tongue taste and body reception.

White tea pays attention to "fragrance and honey rhyme", which is roughly 1? Three years of white tea has lotus leaf fragrance, 3? Seven-year-old white tea has jujube fragrance, more than seven years old has medicinal fragrance, and the final appearance is also related to the region and preservation method.

Old tea: the tea soup brewed by boiling soup tastes very smooth, the soup is sticky, the body fluid is long, the throat rhyme is very obvious, and the aroma at the bottom of the cup is fragrant. Old white tea that has been brewed for more than 8 years still has a taste. If it is alpine white tea, it will have the unique charm of the mountain!

Old-fashioned: if there is only Chen Xiang but no other aroma, it will be red after soaking, and the taste will be close to the smoothness of Pu 'er tea, and it will not be resistant to soaking. After the fifth and sixth times, the taste will begin to decline, and the soup will not be full enough, and it is easy to appear watery. It can also be roughly judged as making old white tea.

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