Mistaken ideas of knowing Tie Guan Yin tea（2）
Mistaken Three: Add ginseng to the tie guan yin tea
It requires tasty, aroma and flavor to enjoy tie guan yin tea. If you put the ginseng to the tea as adding liquorice and ginseng to the oolong tea, there would be no flavor left. The way to tasting tea is to ruin tie guan yin tea.
Mistaken Four: brewing tie guan yin by the purple-clay pot
It would be a pity brewing the good-quality tie guan yin tea without a relevant tea pot. The tea water would be definite sweet and perfect if the tea and pot match. Tie guan yin tea belongs to half-fermented tea, laying on the aroma and taste, which requires the pots with high hardness. High hardness refers to burning with a high temperature, such as glass pot, white porcelain tureen, porcelain pot and so on.
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.
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