In general, Tie Guan Yin tea we bought is basically a pack of 7 grams of packaging. This kind of packaging use a vacuum compression packing, if the packaging is like that, and you recently (20 days) will finish it, Only need to be placed in the shade, where protected the tea from light. If you want to save the best with a longest time, I suggest you put the tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees, so that can achieve the best results.
However, dragon well tea as a beverage, even if it has been dried compressed packing, which does not mean it can be permanently saved. If you wonder enjoy fresh flavor, you’d better place the Tieguanyin tea in the fresh frozen box with minus 5 degrees right after buying it. Best do not keep it exceeding one year, you’d better finish it in half a year.
For the preservation of Tie Guan Yin tea, it generally requires low temperature and vacuum sealing so as to guarantee the color, smelling and flavor of it in a short period. But why it always comes up with that the color, smelling and flavor become not as good as that at the beginning. The reasons are as followed:
1. The drying of tea leaves after fermented. Tea production techniques currently use in the direction toward the light shift fermentation, the tea of Gande is a typical example. In the light fermentation, the tea is easy to reflect the high orchid fragrance and tea water is as well more beautiful (showing the standard green bean water). But if you want the aroma of dried tea leaves to reflect aroma, in general, tea leaves would not be baked so dried, for the leaves must be with some water. This kind of tea should be saved in the place with low temperature and sealed to the effect water makes to leaves. If the tea was much dry, and feel very brittle, and this kind of tea needs a relatively low temperature.
2. Control of tea fermentation degree. Experienced people will fully take the
issue of market liquidity and preservation into account in the control of the
tea ferment. Therefore, people stay tea’s fragrance by controlling the
fermentation degree in tea producing
According to the personal fancy, people can choose either porcelain or purple clay tea set to brew tie guan yin tea. Since the light ferment tie guan yin tea has been popular recently, which values tea’s fragrance more, we advice you to choose the porcelain tea set (tureen or tea pot). Because they are propitious to emit the aroma of tie guan yin tea. Why not the purple clay tea set? That because of its low density, the holes of the pot will absorb some tea fragrance, and the smelling you get will be less. Certainly, it would be ok for the people who love collecting pots to use the purple clay tea set to brew the tie guan yin tea, only need to “share” some tie guan yin with the pot.
Now take tureen for example to show how to brew tie guan yin tea
1. Take a right amount of tea leaves (usually 7g for one pack) and put them into the tureen, then brew them with boiling water.
2. Scrape the foam with the lid.
3. Pour tea rapidly into a fair mug (The fair mug ensures that every guest can drink the oolong tea with same concentration, same aroma and same color. So it is fair to everybody.). Put a trap valve on the fair mug for filtering the pulverized tea leaves. Since the this step is to wash the tea but not to drink, we’d better rush the tea in and out quickly.
4. Wash the trap valve and tureen with the first tea water in the fair mug.
5. When finished washing, brew the dragon well tea with boiling water, then cover the lid.
6. Keep the leaves in water for only 15 seconds then pour tea water into the fair mug. According to personal fancies to adjust the time, overtime if you feel it is wishy-washy and shorten the span if you feel it taste strong.
7. Pour the tea of the fair mug into the tureens to have a taste.
8. Savouring the charm of tie guan yin, then uncover the lid to brew the next
tea
The Anxi Tie Guan Yin tea in Fujian is now in pollution-free cultivation, while the most critical technical measure is to master the garden soil management and fertilization technology.
1.The technology of tea garden soil management
a. Technical measures of soil tillage and effective roles
The pollution-free tea garden emphasis much more on moderate and deep cultivating.Moderate cultivation usually being conducted before the spring tie guan yin tea, once a year with the depth from 10-15cm, which is good for the germination and new leaves growing of the spring tea.The deep cultivation usually conducted once or twice a year has a strong effect on aging and promoting soil, thickening live soil, and decreasing pests.However, the deep cultivation may easily break the tree roots, so it is a high-tech measure and harder to master. It requires flexible cultivating times.Deep cultivations in all types of tea gardens are being conducted after the autumn tea( winter), together with the spraying lime sulfur and comprehensively cleaning work.
b. The technical measure of soil covering
After the shallow plowing, picking the safe, clean and pollution-free straw and weeds to cover the soil 10cm far from the root before the drought. The cover is required to be uniform and thickness of 8-10cm and the soil should not be seen.In the tea gardens on the sloping fields, people put the cover in horizontal direction, which may protect from the straight rush of rain, as well prevent the cover accumulating when rain water flows.Deep cultivation in autumn and winter may not only turn the covers over into the bottom to be fertilizers but also prevent weeds and soil erosion, so that may adjust the earth temperature to promote growing.
c. The technical measure of cultivating garden with external earth
The pollution-free dragon well tea gardens should choose the fertile red earth, yellow earth, the red-yellow earth and other clean earth and take to gardens after the tea season every year.。When fill the earth, different nature of tea gardens require different texture of earth.Tea garden with clay requires red sandy earth; the tea garden with sandy earth requires clay; the tea aging garden requires red and yellow earth.
d. The technical measure of intercropping
The tea tree intercropping technology focuses on deal with problems
according to the separate tree and the reasonable grasping. For the young tea
plantation, people should select legumes, such as soybeans, green beans, peanuts
or creeping of the compounds such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. When
intercropping, the density should be reasonable, green manure and the tea tree
need to maintain an appropriate distance, taking double row hole species, 2 to 3
per hole. When the crops matured should be harvested as soon as possible, and
promptly turned leaf stems buried in soil. For adult tea trees, people should
choose the deep-rooted water fight fat umbrella-type fruit that not sharing
water and fertilizer with trees, such as oil persimmon, longan, red bayberry,
peach, plum, etc. Intercropping should be based on coverage and tea tea growing
to decide the planting density and the tree varieties, which may control the
shade rate from 20% to 30%
2. Fertilization technology in pollution-free tea garden
A. Commonly used fertilizer in pollution-free tea gardens
The fertilizer people use in the tee gardens can be divided into the following types: The first category, farm organic fertilizer, composting through fermentation to achieve sound health standards such as manure, compost and sometimes a small amount of fertilizer cakes. The second category of chemical fertilizers are the commonly used fertilizers, such as urea, ammonium sulfate, magnesium phosphate, rock phosphate, superphosphate and potassium sulfate. The fertilizer must be applied into organic fertilizer, and the ratio of organic fertilizer and inorganic nitrogen should better be 1:1. Last fertilizing must be applied within 30d before the next tie guan yin tea, while the last foliar spray must be 20d before tea being picked. The annual fertilizer application rate should not exceed 20% of the total amount of fertilizer. The third category of compound fertilizers are nutrient and easy to transport. People always choose the domestic compound fertilizers with nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium with a ratio of 15%, or the Russia NPK with the ratio of 16% of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The fourth category of commercial organic fertilizer are widely used. The fifth category of fertilizers, if choice 0.2% of zinc sulfate, can increase the fresh leaves nerolidol content and enhance the aroma of Oolong tea.
B. The technical measure of fertilization
a. Emphasis on the application of basal fertilizer, so that applied early, deep application, and conduct adequately. Applying early refers to the basal fertilizing time should be earlier. Fertilization time should be better in 10d after dragon well tea picking in the autumn (winter). The depth of deep fertilizer should be appropriate enhanced and the resistance of tea should be improved to ensure trees go through the winter safely. The mature tea gardens tried to be deep in basal ditch with depth of 25cm or more. In the young tea plantation, fertilizing according to tree ages gradually from shallow to deeper with the general depth more than 15cm. Adequate fertilizing means full of basal fertilizers. Basal fertilizer in pollution-free tea gardens are advocated use the organic fertilizer. Usually in young tea every 667h m 2000 ~ 1500kg manure or organic fertilizer products applied 300kg, with phosphorus, potassium of 25kg separately.
b. Fertilizing according to areas. Tea outputs in spring and autumn isgood-quality and high-output ratio, because the two seasons are the golden seasons of tea production and also the peak period of fat absorption. But if you want many and fast growth, relying solely on the basal nutrition is not enough, it must be supplemented with fertilizer. Fertilize compound fertilizer 200kg per 667h square meters in four facilities, i.e. spring, summer, heat and autumn and before the 30 ~ 40d mining application is appropriate. The ratio of various types of fertilizer in the total amount differs according to different ages of trees. The young tea plantation takes ratio as nitrogen: phosphorus: potassium 2:1 1:1, while the mature garden: 3:1:1.5. Accompany with magnesium, zinc and other trace elements in fertilizer to improve quality.
c. Skillfully fertilizing on the surface of leaves. Spraying fertilizers on
the surface on leaves may germinate tea trees and elongate new branches, but
meanwhile may affect oolong tea’s quality with low aroma and slight taste by
reducing the inclusion of fresh leaves. After spraying, due to the overgrowth of
new shoots, some trees causing a high incidence of pests. Therefore, this
technology should be master reasonable, covering both quality and quantity.
Firstly, people should choose the fertilizer registered by the department of
agriculture along with an inspection and registration certificate. Secondly,
people may use the nutrient elements that may make early germination and harvest
as well as compensate for tea aroma. Thirdly, spray to wet the both sides to
play the strong role of back leaves’ absorptive capacity in order to receive
better promotion effect
The ancient Chinese had considered ten virtues of tea: dispersing depression, driving sleepiness, keeping away from disease, popularizing propriety and kindness, expressing respect, tasting, keeping health, righting wrongs and refining interests.
To enjoy tie guan yin tea, we usually need a bell-shaped cup the tureen to brew the “Kungfu tea”. The ratio between leaves and water is 1:22 and the process takes 1-3 minutes. Now judge the dragon well tea combined with the following nine inherent features:
1. The pure tie guan yin tea has oval leaves with sparse teeth and dull margin, the leaf-surface is wavy uplift with obvious bone-shaped. The mesophyll is hypertrophy with smooth dark-green, and slightly blunt in leaf base while leaf tip slightly askew to the left and slightly drooping with purple buds. So it has a calling as “askew-tail peach with red bud”.
2. Anxi tie guan yin tea should highlight the “Kwan-yin lingering charm”. The ancients had a saying as “people may smell the saint aroma not even tasting the nectar”. Take a small sip and switch your tongue lightly, you can feel mellow, smooth and fresh. Swallow slowly and you’ll feel a sweet taste with honey with lasting appeal. But what is the Kwan-yin lingering charm? Although there are many different sayings, the tie guan yin tea should be prominent on its aroma and taste. The pure tie guan yin tea has an aftertaste after drinking. The water is with aroma and aroma contains water.
3. In appearance, the leaves of Anxi Tie Guan Yin tea are strong knotting, heavy and green-blue in bud while green in belly shaped as a dragonfly. The leaves are with fresh color and white frost covering them.
4. Sound. Take small amount of Tie Guan Yin tea leaves into the pot and you’ll hear the voice of “koudang koudang”, the high-quality tea is with a ringing sound while the secondary with a hoarse voice.
5. Aroma. The aroma of Tie Guan Yin tea belongs to the fougere, like orchids in the empty valley with a timeless fragrance, which may give people a poetic sense of elegance and tranquility.
6. Taste. The taste is very rich, but not strong astringent or greasy. The aftertaste is sweet, like a poem by Lu You said “the sweetness stays on the tongue all the day”.
7. Color. The dargon well tea water is golden yellow, rich and gaudy clear. After brewing the leaves are hypertrophy and bright (one of the characteristics of Tie Guan Yin tea leaves are dorsal rolled) with a shiny silk surface.
8. Resistance of brewing. (Tie Guan Yin, after many times brewing, the aroma, taste, tea water should keep consistently). The Tie Guan Yin with keeping quality is high-quality.
9. Meanwhile, in conjunction with the specific circumstances of different seasons, hills and styles, so as to carry out a more comprehensive judgement of Tie Guan Yin tea.