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As the old Chinese saying that a year’s plan starts with spring means that spring is the golden season of the year, so is the tea harvested in this season. But how can we identify pros and cons of the tie guan yin tea? The tea experts consider that we can judge by the aspects of appearance, color, aroma, taste and tea water.

  Appearance: judging by trabs, tenderness, color and cleanliness.

  Trabs: leaves with line shape are called trabs. Those are tight, straight, uniform and heavy are good.

  Tenderness: it mainly depends on the amount of buds, tenderness of leaves and smoothness of trabs.

  Color: depends on the color and lustrousness of leaves.

   Cleanliness: mainly to see if there are stems in leaves or other impurity, that without is good.

  Aroma

  Use your nose to judge if the aroma sterling and lasting. Smell it for several times to distinguish if the aroma high or low, strong or weak, last long or short. And also you may judge if it smells smoky, burning or mouldy.

  Color of the dragon well tea water

  The color that the brewed inclusion presents is called the color of tea water. The color may be dark or light, bright or dim, clear or impure. Surely the water bright and clear is good while the water dark and impure is bad.

  Taste

Brewed by boiling water, most soluble ingredients are dissolved in water, forming the taste. By the way, the taste formed when water’s temperature is 50℃ is the best. When tasting, keep a sip of tea water in mouth, taste it slightly with tongue to distinguish if it’s strong or weak, fresh or mellow, sweet or bitter.

  Tea dregs

Watch the leaves brewed in the cup, to see the tenderness, color and uniformity. You may also use fingers to press to judge if it’s soft or tough, thick or thin, old or tender