17 Apr 2010

Autumn tea market, how to identify Masaaki Tieguanyin

Autumn Tie Guan Yin is usually listed after Mid-Autumn Festival, this year more a leap month, so back in early September a number of tea storefronts, the store appeared in "Early Autumn Tie Guan Yin tea market" message. Different views of the industry, and some recognition of this year's summer early autumn tea, tea is equivalent to saying, while others believe that "early autumn tea" is a means of confusing the consumer, its quality is much worse than the autumn tea is actually a summer tea. Professionals armed with their own views, so as consumers, 求人不如求己, obediently learn the recipe for identifying the method in the autumn Tieguanyin.

The first one: tight end throw tea cups dry sound crisp as autumn tea. Autumn Tie Guan Yin is tight knot shape and thick, solid, heavy, throwing cups natural sound great, but summer tea shape relaxation, ethereal, throwing cups sound relatively boring.

The second measure: dry tea-green and shiny by the autumn tea. Take a bit of dry tea in the light, green and full of gloss is autumn tea shall, if the dark color of Ukraine and is generally less gloss summer tea. One exception, if the tea Wu oil color rendering (like dried persimmons with cream color), this is not a summer tea, but the quality is superb autumn tea.

The third measure: fresh fruit aroma after brewing were positive autumn tea. Fresh fruit is the flower fragrance is different from the other quarter Autumn Tie Guan Yin tea is the most obvious feature, if summer tea, the odor with a smell similar.

Fourth move: After brewing infusion were positive concave soft autumn tea. Will be brewing the tea a few times out observation, Masaaki Tieguanyin Securinega concave soft, if Securinega stiffness rough, then the other quarter are Tieguanyin.