How to quickly judge the grade of this tea in front of you. To be serious, learning tea requires long-term experience, and a large number of samples cannot be made quickly. But there are always some general rules that allow you to filter out too much interference with the elimination method, and learn and compare in more standardized samples.

Before making tea

1. Look at the dry tea: as a whole-the strips are neat, the color is uniform, and the one without too much debris is the top; the thickness is different, the color difference is obvious, the bottom is, and there is a suspicion of blending.

2. Look at dry tea: individual-the strands are tightly knotted, oily and shiny, and the color is natural; the strands are loose, dull and dull, the color is too bright, or the ones that are particularly dry and lack vitality are the bottom. Color is a difficult point. Many shoddy teas look more glamorous than real good teas. Taking West Lake Longjing as an example, counterfeit teas are green and green, but the genuine ones are yellow and green, not very eye-catching. . But carefully distinguished, the color of the genuine product is natural and pleasing to the eye, and the counterfeit tea is too bright and feels unnatural.

3. Smell dry tea: the aroma is pure, the penetrating power is first; the peculiar smell, the aroma is erratic, the lower. However, not all good tea is very fragrant, especially old tea. Dry tea may not smell fragrant. Here we have to distinguish the difference between a weak aroma and an erratic and negative aroma. Simply put, it can be unscented, but it can’t be incredibly fragrant.

Making tea

1. Look at the lid of the cup: If you use a lid to make the cup, pay attention to the foam when washing the tea. The foam is less and disperses quickly. The cup cover is basically free of impurities; the cup is covered with more foam but not scattered. The ones with more impurities remain below. Good tea is taken seriously throughout the production and storage process.

2. Smell the lid of the cup: First, there should be no unpleasant odor when hot smelling, plus a strong and pure fragrance, and lasting on the wall after cooling; hot smell has sour, astringent, burnt, and other peculiar smells and the aroma is not long-lasting is bad tea.