How to buy Pu'er tea

Pu'er tea is a kind of black tea. In Guangdong, people often drink a pot of Pu'er or chrysanthemum Pu'er tea for morning tea or evening tea to remove greasiness. It can help you lose weight, so try not to drink Pu'er tea when you are hungry, because the degreasing effect is very obvious and drinking Pu'er tea will make you hungry easily. Nowadays, people in many places are slowly starting to drink Pu'er tea. It was even hyped up for a while. But let's discuss with you how to choose Pu'er tea.

1. First look at the tea cake to see if it is spring tea. Spring tea usually has some yellow leaves on the surface. Look for "horse hoofs". The buds and leaves of spring tea are fatter than those of autumn tea. The surface of autumn tea will be more stringy than spring tea and look very smooth. The strips will be longer and thinner than spring tea. Autumn tea has no yellow flakes and the surface is also very clean.

2. Smell the tea cake. Good tea will have a dry aroma and should not have any peculiar smell. If there is any peculiar smell, you should communicate with the store owner immediately and pay close attention to what the problem is. You should also be vigilant in subsequent tasting.

3. When you make the first brew after washing the tea, pay attention to whether the tea soup is clear. A good tea soup should be very clear, and the new tea should be light yellow in color.

4. The first thing to judge when drinking is whether the tea tastes astringent when you swallow it. If you swallow the tea soup and then the saliva, but there is no saliva and the taste is astringent, this tea is most likely tableland tea.

5. Pay attention to the sweet aftertaste. If water comes out from the bottom of the tongue, the sides of the tongue and the cheeks, then the tea is of good quality and belongs to the old tree tea category of the tree type. If you can feel the root of your tongue and even extend it to your throat, that is what we usually call throat rhyme. Generally, tea from trees over 100 years old will have this throat rhyme. It can also produce saliva on the tongue and eliminate astringency, with a small and low astringency area, a sound at the bottom of the tongue, feeling on both sides of the tongue, and deep throat rhyme. If it has all these tastes, the tea should be from trees 100-200 years old or older.

6. While drinking, you need to smell the bottom of the tea to see if there is any special smell. Normally it is the scent of ink. Very few teas have a sweet aroma. If there are other strange smells, you should also be able to taste the coexistence problem of the tea soup.

7. When you stop steeping, you must check the tea leaves. This is very important: a good tea leaf base should have high integrity and the color of the tea leaves should be yellow-green. If the tea leaves are still green after being steeped for many times, it is very likely that the tea is quickly roasted green tea, rather than sun-dried green tea.

8. Finally, you can make a summary in your mind to see whether you can tolerate the shortcomings of this tea and whether you appreciate its advantages. If the shortcomings are not obvious and you like the advantages very much, you can consider buying it. If you want to find a tea that is perfect in all the above aspects, it is not that there is no such thing, but it is very expensive. Moreover, if you are buying famous tea, it usually has a regional protection mark, and pollution-free tea and organic tea have nationally recognized marks on the packaging.

Pu'er tea can also be bought for collection and has a certain appreciation potential, but you must be very careful when storing it, otherwise it will go bad. So when purchasing and storing, you should