How to judge old tea?

How old is Puerh tea?
Is all old tea good?
A good cup of old tea, strong and strong tea, rich and pleasant taste, long-lasting aroma.
For tea people and tea fans who love Puerh tea, aged Puerh tea is a kind of tea with memory.
Tea friends often sigh that Puerh tea is very deep, regardless of the new tea and old tea, a little careless, it is easy to buy fake tea or unknown tea. Summarizing my own experience in purchasing, I believe that when buying old Puerh tea, we must grasp three principles:

First, do not buy tea that violates historical facts.
Puerh tea practitioners often weave an extremely legendary story when they sell tea from unknown sources to attract newcomers who do not know this way. There are deep mountain encounters with old tea farmers who have the opportunity to buy dozens of home possessions Those who made their own old teas in the year; Some have bought hard teas from ethnic minority compatriots who hang on the kitchen beams for unknown years; Some even have their own ancestors who used tea for their own ancestry.

However, these lies all seriously violated the historical facts of Puerh tea. In fact, after the private-public partnership of Yunnan tea industry, the privately-made Puerh tea basically disappeared. In addition to the four major Chinese tea factories and several county-level tea factories, No other tea factory or individual produces Puerh tea. This situation did not change until the late 1990s. At the same time, the folk craft of making Puerh tea has also been lost. The restoration of the manual tea-making method in the mid-1990s is only a formal restoration, not a true technical inheritance. In addition, the local residents in Yunnan have never used Puerh old tea and stored Puerh tea's customs or even consciousness. We should question all tea products that violate historical facts.

Second, do not buy so-called old tea that violates the common sense concept of Puerh tea.
Shide once saw a tea: "7572 made in Fuhai in 1998", in a subconscious way, it can be immediately judged as a fake tea, the reason is very simple: 7572 is a cooked tea produced by Menghai Tea Factory, this mark is Menghai Tea Factory's exclusive mark, the number 2 in the mark also represents the plant number of Menghai Tea Factory. Fuhai Tea Factory is impossible and has no right to use this number. It can be seen that the tea product is actually fabricated by a counterfeiter. It is fake tea. There are so many kinds of such tea products. If you identify such tea products, you can judge the authenticity as long as you know the basic knowledge of Puerh tea.

Third. Do not buy tea products that violate the laws of nature.
Some people took the old tea from the 1990s to show people, its style, printing, etc. have no objections, but the entire packaging paper is as white as new, and inside label does not even have any tea oil coloring. Such tea can be basically regarded as fake tea. For more than 20 years and nearly 30 years, no matter what, there will be traces of years on Puerh tea and its packaging. In fact, the tea products and packaging in the past ten years will be significantly different from the new tea. Learn more about tea products in different periods The change can effectively prevent the purchase of fake tea.
In addition to these three principles, there are also many things that need to be paid attention to, which requires accumulated learning and thinking, and careful purchase of old tea is a must to abide by the tea creed.

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Differences between new and old tea

Compared with Pu-erh raw tea, the taste of cooked tea is more unique. The newly prepared cooked tea and the aged cooked tea have different tea properties and taste.
 
 
New tea: Refers to tea 1-5 years after making wool.
 
Old tea: tea that has been stored in a dry warehouse for more than five years.
Appearance: It is difficult to see the difference between cooked tea new tea and old tea, almost the same.
 

Taste: The biggest difference between the new tea and the old tea is the piling flavor. The newly made fresh tea will have a strong Odory smell after the Odory process. The taste is not very good, similar to the seafood flavor, aged for two or three years After that, the odor will gradually dissipate and turn into the unique fresh and sweet aroma of cooked tea.
 
The freshly pressed new tea will have a relatively heavy water taste in three or four months. The new cooked tea soup is not very good in terms of thickness, but old tea will show better in the thick and smooth soup. Old tea often has a fragrance of aged, similar to the smell of clear wood in the old house. It smells very comfortable.

Soup color: There is no difference between the soup color of cooked tea and the new tea. The soup color stored in the dry warehouse for more than ten years is better. The soup color is more transparent. The soup color of the new tea and aged tea is chestnut wine red, which looks thick and thick.
 

Leaf bottom: cooked tea with a moderate fermentation process, the new tea leaf bottom is still more flexible, it is not easy to break when the fingers are twisted, and the toughness of the leaves can be felt. The bottom of cooked tea leaves that are more than ten years is soft, and the fingers will break when they are twisted.
 

Tea nature: New tea is hot, and old tea is warm. Freshly made cooked tea is easy to get angry if you drink too much, while aged cooked tea is more gentle and comfortable.

Efficacy: New tea and aged tea have the same benefit: warm stomach, lose weight, reduce fat, prevent arteriosclerosis, prevent coronary heart disease, lower blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lower blood sugar, bacteriostatic and anti-inflammatory, reduce tobacco poison, including warmth Stomach strengthens the stomach and the prevention of the three high aspects is more prominent, suitable for long-term tasting of the elderly.
 
If it is easy to get enthusiasm, drink less freshly cooked tea in spring and summer, cooked tea warms the stomach to expel cold, especially suitable for drinking in autumn and winter. Newly made cooked tea is suitable for tea friends with cold physique and can play a role in conditioning. Tea has basically no side benefits, suitable for all ages, and has a relatively strong health care benefit.

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How to distinguish new or old tea?

As the age of Pu-erh tea becomes more and more fragrant, the longer it is, the more valuable it is. Many unscrupulous merchants will pretend to be old tea with new tea. How to tell if Pu-erh tea is really old or pretended to be old?
 
1. Identify from the aroma.
Pu-erh cooked tea passes through the pile, so it will produce a pile of taste. Generally, the dry warehouse cooked tea within five years (according to the traditional saying, the tea that has not been mildewed is the dry warehouse tea) can be removed from the surface of the dry tea Smelt a smell of cooked tea. In about ten to twenty years, when the surface cooked tea smell has disappeared, you can feel the old fragrance from the tea soup. In 1973, the first batch of cooked brick tea was made from the material of tight tea. It has been more than 20 years. No matter whether it is from a type of tea or tea soup, there is no cooked taste anymore, but there is a fragrance. Agarwood is a mature scent of tea, which has been transformed into a better scent of cooked tea through long-term aging. The green tea of ​​the new year smells of green tea, and the green tea of ​​a longer period of time has no green tea. Instead, it is replaced by the fragrance of tea, which is very soft and pure.
 
2. Distinguish from soup color.
The tea soup of Pu-erh tea in dry warehouse is chestnut red, close to the color of heavy fire oolong tea, even if it is aged raw tea. The color of cooked tea soup is dark maroon, even close to black. The color of real aged tea is getting redder. The soup color of newer green tea is slightly greenish yellow.
 
3. Identify from the bottom of the leaf.
The bottom of Pu-erh raw tea in the dry warehouse is maroon to deep maroon. The leaf strips are full and soft, oily and shiny. The bottom of Pu-erh cooked tea is mostly dark chestnut or black, and the leaf strips are dry, thin and hard. If the fermentation is heavier, there will be obvious charring, like the grilled by the hot sun, and some older leaves will soak in the water for a long time. However, if some cooked teas are not piled for a long time and the fermentation is not heavy, the leaf bottom will also be very close to the bottom of raw tea. On the contrary, there are some raw teas in the production process. For example, after the tea leaves are twisted, they cannot be dried immediately. After a long delay, the bottom of the leaves will also appear dark brown, and the soup color will be lighter and darker. The cooked tea is the same.

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Raw cooked and old tea

The so-called "raw tea", or "shengpu", refers to the traditional natural alcoholic Pu-erh tea, also known as traditional Pu-erh tea. Its quality characteristics are sweet, smooth, mellow, thick, and fragrant. It needs a long time to store.  "Shengpu" is mainly made by directly storing or autoclaving the raw materials of sun-dried green tea from Yunnan. Representatives of this type of tea products are: various types of green cakes, Bajiao Ting tuo cha, Menghai Qingyu, Fengqing Qingyu, Nannuo tea, etc. The newly produced "shengpu" has not been adequately stored. Aging, the basic ingredients such as caffeine, tea polyphenols, and catechins in tea have not been fully converted, the tea taste is strong, the tea soup is bitter and domineering, and the tea is relatively irritating. At this time, Pu-erh tea is not suitable for tasting, and it is best to collect. Conditional Pu-erh tea enthusiasts store some "sangpu". After more than ten years, wait for it to fully melt before taking out the tasting. Xiang Jiuyuan, the special tea emotion, makes the tea rhyme even better.

"Cooked tea", or "cooked Pu", refers to the Pu-erh tea made from Yunnan large-leaf seed sun-haired green tea, which is artificially accelerated. Fermented Pu-erh tea began in the 1970s. In 1973, the Yunnan Tea Branch of China National Tea Corporation was first trial-produced at the Kunming Tea Factory based on market development and consumer needs. Pu-erh tea has the characteristics of sweet, smooth, mellow, thick and fragrant. After artificial fermentation, the composition of the tea has undergone rapid transformation. The tea properties and the taste of the tea soup have the characteristics of alcoholic Pu-erh tea drink. Of course, the taste and tea properties of "Cooked Pu" also depend on the storage time. The longer the age, the better the taste and tea properties of "Cooked Pu". It is worth noting that, although the "cooked general" is a fermentation process of artificially accelerated alcoholification, the fermentation process is complicated, the time period is long, and the production cost is high. Some unscrupulous merchants are trying to make huge profits, using fake and real products, using new stuff, and even "quick-puer tea" to harm consumers. Therefore, you must go to regular tea shops to drink and purchase Pu-erh tea and buy branded Pu-erh tea.

 Speaking of "old tea", the so-called "old tea" refers to Pu-erh tea that has been stored for at least 20 years. These old teas are very old, they are rare in the market, and some older "old teas" are expensive. Drinking "old tea" must be "taste", one is because it is a rare treasure, and the other is because the old tea has given the "old tea" a unique scent, throat and taste. Only by careful taste can you feel the truth of it.

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Differences between new tea and old tea

Compared with Pu-erh raw tea, the taste of cooked tea is more unique. The freshness of the cooked tea and the aged cooked tea have differences in tea properties and taste.
 
 
New tea: refers to tea 1-5 years after making wool.
 
Old Tea: Tea that has been stored in a dry warehouse for more than five years.
Appearance: It is difficult to see the difference between the fresh and aged teas, and they are almost the same.
 

Taste: The biggest difference between the new tea and the old tea lies in the taste of the old tea. The freshly made new tea will have a strong smell of the old tea after going through the process of the old tea. The taste is not very good. It is similar to seafood. After that, the odor of the pile will gradually dissipate, turning into the unique fresh sweetness of cooked tea.
 
The freshly pressed new tea will have a heavier water taste in three or four months. The new cooked tea soup is not very good in terms of smoothness, but the old tea will show better in the thick and smooth soup. Old tea tends to have a scent of smell, similar to the smell of clear wood in the old house, which smells very comfortable.
Soup color: There is no difference in the color of the cooked tea, the new tea and the old tea. The dried tea stored for more than ten years is better in storage, and the soup color will be more transparent. The new tea and old tea soup colors are chestnut wine red, which looks thick and thick.
 

Leaf bottom: cooked tea with moderate fermentation process, the new tea base is still more flexible, and the fingers are not easily broken when twisted, and the toughness of the leaves can be felt. The base of ripe tea for more than ten years is soft, and the fingers are broken when twisted.
 

Tea properties: New teas are hot, and old teas are warm. Freshly cooked tea is easy to get angry if you drink too much, and aged cooked tea is more moist and comfortable.
Benefits: The cooked tea has the same benefit as the old tea: warming the stomach, losing weight, reducing fat, preventing arteriosclerosis, preventing coronary heart disease, lowering blood pressure, anti-aging, anti-cancer, lowering blood sugar, bacteriostatic and anti-inflammatory, reducing smoke poison, among which warming Stomach enhancing and prevention of the three high aspects are relatively prominent, suitable for long-term drinking of middle-aged and elderly people.
 
If it is easy to get fire, drink less freshly cooked tea in the spring and summer seasons, cooked tea warms the stomach and dispels the cold, especially suitable for autumn and winter seasons. The newly-made cooked tea is suitable for those with cold constitutions. Tea has almost no side effects, suitable for young and old, and has relatively strong health benefits.

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