Knack on selecting tie guan yin tea

It is a fashion to drink tie guan yin tea as a national beverage. Drinking tea has become a cultural enjoyment and the way of tasting life as well. More and more people like to drink tea, but what skills are there on selecting tea? Guangdong food security net has collected some tea selecting skills for consumers, so let’s talk about the selecting skills of tieguanyin tea.

Firstly, choose the right buying place, that is to say, buy tieguanyin tea in professional tea shop or large-scale marketplace or supermarket. That’s because tieguanyin tea is a kind of commodity with high technology content, it can’t be guaranteed to buy tieguanyin tea in dependable quality in the roadside shops.

Secondly, check the package carefully. Make sure if there’s information of manufacturer, date of manufacture and place of production on the package. Package of normal manufacturer is refined while the fake one is rough. Besides, normally new tie guan yin tea tastes better, so you should pay attention to the date of manufacture of it to avoid wrongly buying the old tieguanyin tea from last year.

If you are in professional tea shop, you’ll see the tieguanyin sample besides the refindly packed tieguanyin tea, so you may identify the quality by its appearance.

If it’s conditioned, you may ask the seller to brew you a cup of tieguanyin tea for further identification. It is dainty to brew tieguanyin tea and the professional way is brewing 3g tieguanyin leaves with 150ml boiling water for 5 minutes.

When tasting the tea, besides the flavor, you should pay attention to the aroma and tea water of tieguanyin tea. For example, traditional tieguanyin tea water is golden and clear without turbidity.