What kind of tea is considered good old tea?

Pu'er tea is divided into raw and ripe, some like the taste of fresh tea, clear, sweet and bitter, and some like mature tea, delicate and mellow, not bitter or astringent. Then what kind of matured tea is considered good? In summary, all good mature teas have these 5 common characteristics. Tea friends can take out your mature tea to compare.

The first element of good tea is cleanliness.

Compared with green tea, pu-erh has an additional process of microbial fermentation during production, which plays a decisive role in its quality. With recent improvements to the pu-erh manufacturing process, the environment and sanitation level for pu-erh processing have also made significant progress, ensuring that all pu-erh products produced meet relevant standards.

When tea friends get their hands on a new tea, they can make an initial judgment based on its clarity of leaves.

It tastes clean and refreshing with no unusual flavor.

This is closely related to the storage environment of Pu-erh tea, good aged tea has a refreshing taste and pleasing flavor. When you smell it, you can feel the rich aroma such as chestnut fragrance, wood fragrance, old fragrance, mushroom fragrance etc. On the other hand, if there are quality problems in the mature tea, after smelling the dry tea aroma, it can be found that there is pungent odor, miscellaneous smell, such as moldy smell, stacking smell, storage smell, etc.

The flavor of tea is rich and varied.

When judging the quality of tea, we often use "fragrant, sweet, mellow, thick, smooth" five characteristics to judge a mature tea, so it can be known that good mature tea has rich flavor and taste, not single. It is also testing the comprehensive sensory performance of the tea.

Stable and enduring flavor of tea.

Whether a tea is good or not apart from considering its taste and flavor coordination also depends on its stability. Does the tea leaves hold well after being steeped?

Sometimes we drink a tea that initially seems to be a good matured tea, but after only a few cups it loses its flavor and becomes weak. A tea like this can't be considered a good matured tea.

Leaves are well-oiled with active ingredients

A well-aged tea, in addition to being good to drink at the moment, if you want to collect and raise its value, to make it more fragrant with age, we must see this tea has vitality. In addition to the dry appearance of tea and broth vitality, the most important thing is to see whether there is vitality on the bottom of the leaf. The bottom of the leaf is black and bright, and lightly squeezed has a certain elasticity, this kind of aged tea, it's a well-aged tea with vitality, which will be more fragrant with age in the future.

To drink a good familiar tea, how its quality is, whether the tea leaves are good or not, our body will speak for itself. From sense to mouth, it's refreshing and clean with no impurities. The tea broth entering the body is comfortable and pleasant, with an overwhelming urge to continue drinking, and with each cup that you drink, a strong feeling that you can never get enough.