Mistaken ideas of knowing Tie Guan Yin tea(1)
People have been always engrafted some wrong ideas by the sellers when buying tie guan yin tea. Some of the sellers confuse the consumers with the odor type, making them to believe that tie guan yin with heavy aroma is wonderful. It’s true that aroma is one of the most important elements to judge tie guan yin tea, but not the sweeter the better. The good-quality tie guan yin tea with authentic aroma mostly grows in the high-elevation mountain area, where is full of clouds and mist, immerged in sunlight, so that the leaves maybe thick, soft and tender accumulating much aromatic substance. The tie guan yin grew in these areas may generally issue high-quality aroma, which surely deserves higher price.
The best tie guan yin tea takes the Anxi original variety “red bud with skew tail” as raw material, which has the odor types as yellow cinnamonum cassia aroma and irises and orchids aroma with the price at 1000rmb yuan per 500g. The next best tie guan yin tea is variated from the “red bud with skew tail” in Anxi, which takes the red-heart and hongying as raw materials with the odor types of milk flower aroma, sweet orchid aroma, blue-white flower aroma and mature aroma, pricing at 100rmb per 500g. The general tie guan yin tea is produced by the particular methods with not necessary raw material. The fresh leaves are not necessary from Anxi, which has the odor types as flower-fruit aroma and so on, pricing at 30rmb yuan per 500g.
Mistaken Two: the good-quality tie guan yin tea tastes sour
On the market many teamen take “with sour tasting” as the representation of high-quality tie guan yin tea. In fact, tie guan yin tea has almost the same style as green tea and black tea, but a different fermenting degree so that the taste has an entitative change. Green tea is not through the fermented process so is with strong fresh flavor, while the black tea fermented heavily and taste mellow and pure. As I mentioned that tie guan yin is between the green tea and black tea with its ingenious making methods, which making tie guan yin having both fresh flavor of green tea and pure sweet of black tea. Generally speaking, the high-quality tie guan yin tea has mellow, unique and lasting aroma. When tasting, it turns out to be bitter with honey sweet, which is called “Kwan-yin aroma” but not sour tasting.
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