Because Pu-erh tea has room for appreciation, collecting Pu-erh tea is a way most people pursue. However, since Pu-erh tea has a difference between raw tea and cooked tea, most people do not know which one to choose for collection. Then, why do you collect more raw tea than cooked tea when collecting Pu-erh tea? Let’s take a closer look at this issue.
Pu-erh raw tea is a tea made from fresh leaves picked and then spread out, dried, rolled, de-blocked, air-dried and autoclaved without stacking and fermenting.
Even high-quality raw tea is not very palatable in the new tea period, but with the passage of time and natural aging, the taste and taste will gradually increase trend.
The advantages of raw Pu’er tea can be fully demonstrated only through storage and aging and further transformation of the contained substances. Therefore, people often say that “raw tea should be hidden”.
Good raw tea will have different performances at different times.
Make raw tea a favorite object of many people’s collection, but the essence of tea is “drink” in the final analysis, not “investment” that only hides and waits for appreciation. This use value determines that Pu-erh tea cannot deviate from the essence of “drinkable” and “delicious”!
Short-aged raw Pu-erh tea is very irritating and needs to be aged for a long time before it becomes mellow and delicious. If you drink it in a short time, the taste will be more green.
If you like to drink at the moment, as long as it suits your taste, you don’t need to consider the aging potential of the tea cake.
But if you plan to store it for long-term aging, it is recommended to choose Pu-erh tea with rich tea quality, changes in tea soup, pure and thick taste, and thick soup.
The advantages of Pu’er Xinsheng tea are: cheap, affordable, and easy to buy. It is resistant to foaming, and it is also good for occasional fresh green tea.
Disadvantages of Pu’er Fresh Tea are: the tea taste is green and astringent; the storage takes up a lot of space, it takes a long time to age, and the taste after ageing is uncertain (if you lack experience to choose) .
The advantages of aged Pu’er raw tea are: the tea is beautiful and delicious, with a quite old tea style, which is generally the taste pursued by connoisseurs. It can be tasted immediately after purchase, and there is no need to store it for aging. You can drink the whole cake and consume it without taking the risk of storage.
The cooked tea strengthens the fermentation in a short period of time to make it reborn from the ashes, the bitterness disappears, and the tea soup is sweet, moist and smooth. Therefore, as long as the cooked tea has a good stacking process, the quality of the finished tea is not bad.
The difference brought by the storage of cooked tea is not as obvious as that of raw tea, nor does it pursue any old trees on the top of the mountain, and the requirements for brewing technology are not very high.
The disadvantage is that the tea soup is less energetic than raw tea, and may have a miscellaneous taste. Even some may still have a heaping taste (some teas are not heaped), like the smell of earth, and even have a sour taste; there is less room for aging and improvement than raw tea.
In a word, drinking cooked tea is a peace of mind and hassle-free, while raw tea is about differences and changes, and what you enjoy is the process of growing with it.
Generally speaking, the green tea soup of shorter age is green and yellow, the aroma is pure and lasting, but the irritation is strong; Chen Xiang.
Of course, not all raw teas can be stored until they appreciate in value. For tea lovers, before collecting raw tea, the key is to choose good tea ingredients.
If the raw material of the raw tea collected from the beginning is very poor, even if it is stored for decades, it will not becomeWhat a good tea, so before collecting raw tea, you must choose the raw materials, so that the more old it is, the more fragrant it will be.
Compared with raw tea, cooked tea is close to the quality of old tea after being fermented. Even better, the new tea period has a higher drinking value.
Therefore, it is a more sensible consumption choice in the new era. Store raw tea, do what you can, not blindly!
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