Recently, "Chen Pu", "Orange Pu" and "Citrus Pu" have run rampant in the circle of tea friends, with different varieties on the market and uneven prices. Many people are confused, they are "orange + Pu'er", what is the difference? Today we will talk about these "orange flavored" Pu'er teas.
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Orange Pu
Orange Pu is made of orange peel and Pu'er as raw materials, and is made by special technology.
The orange peel is thin, the peel and flesh are easy to separate, the fruit petals are also easy to separate, the oil chamber is small, and it has no medicinal value after drying or drying. Compared with citrus peel, tea is made with less sweet and stale flavor.
In daily life, oranges and oranges are almost universal, we usually call oranges a lot of fruits, what sugar oranges, honey oranges, tribute oranges and so on.
As long as it is an orange, no matter what variety it is, what place of origin, hollowing out the pulp and stuffing it into Pu'er tea can be called orange Pu. Therefore, the scope of orange pu is very extensive.
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Citrus
Citrus Pu tea is a tea made by combining the peel of Xinhui citrus with Yunnan Pu'er ripe tea and after raw sunning. It has the fruity aroma of Xinhui citrus and the mellow sweet flavor of Yunnan Pu'er ripe tea.
Citrus tea only uses Xinhui mandarin orange produced in Xinhui as the only raw material, which has a National Geographical Protection Mark and is irreplaceable by ordinary oranges.
Citrus tea uses large red mandarins and small green oranges grown in the Xinhui area, and only the water and soil of the Xinhui area can grow this big red mandarin or small green orange.
The skin of Xinhui citrus is the direct raw material of Xinhui tangerine peel, which has high medicinal value and is the main source of the medicinal value of citrus tea, and the cost of Xinhui citrus peel is dozens of times more expensive than the peel of orange, and the longer it is stored, the higher the value.
So what is the difference between small green orange and big red mandarin?
The peel of small green orange is relatively early, it is still in the stage of young fruit, the aromatic oil content of small green orange is higher than that of large red mandarin, the citrus flavor is strong, the taste is bitter and fragrant, the skin is thick and hard, and the processing process is more difficult. Therefore, the citrus tea made with small green oranges is generally more spicy, fresh and pleasant.
Big red mandarin refers to the ripe citrus peel processed from the small snow to the small cold period (that is, around December), the skin color is bright red to large red, the orange peel color is brownish red to brownish black, soft, thick skin, warm, sweet and fragrant, not resistant to storage.
The sugar content of large red mandarin orange is very high, and the citrus tea made of orange peel with large red mandarin orange peel has a sweeter taste and is relatively weaker on gastrointestinal irritation.
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Chen Pi Pu'er
Cooked Pu and tangerine peel mixed and drunk as Chen Pi Pu'er tea, Tangerine Pu'er tea selection has the reputation of "thousand years of ginseng, a hundred years of orange peel" of the New Will Tangerine Peel and Yunnan Aged Ripe Pu'er through special processing.
The peel of citrus (orange) can be divided into new skin, or old skin, and the new skin is aged for 3 years to become an old skin, also known as orange peel, so the old skin is orange peel, which can be used for medicine and can also be used to make citrus tea.
Moreover, tangerine peel is divided into ordinary tangerine peel and broad tangerine peel.
Due to the unique geographical advantages of the three mountains of Jiangmen, Guangdong, where the two waters meet, the Xinhui citrus fruit produced is particularly suitable for making tangerine peel, which is specially called "Guangchen Peel" in historical trade, we can also call it "Xinhui Tangerine Peel", and other regions are collectively called Tangerine Peel. Chen Pi Pu'er chose Xinhui Tangerine Peel.
"Oranges are oranges in the south of Huainan, and oranges in the north of Huaibei", and good species can only survive in a suitable environment. Tea is the same, and different raw material choices also affect the quality of tea. Knowing the difference between the three, I believe that you can choose your favorite one.
"Drink tea under the paper window of the tile house, clear spring green tea, with a plain ceramic tea set, drink with two or three people, half a day of leisure, can withstand ten years of dust dreams." --Zhou Zuoren