1. What is Wuyi Rock Tea? What is the relationship between Da Hong Pao and Wuyi Rock Tea?
When it comes to Wuyi Rock Tea, the first reaction in everyone's mind is the Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao. In fact, Wuyi Rock Tea refers to the oolong tea produced in Wuyi Mountain, which belongs to the green tea in the six major teas.
The Da Hong Pao is the most representative product of Wuyi Rock Tea, because of its high popularity, many people are accustomed to referring to Wuyi Rock Tea as Da Hong Pao. In fact, Da Hong Pao is just a tree species name. The nickname of Da Hong Pao, also known as Qi Dan, was also known in the Tang Dynasty as the tea name of "Late Ganhou".
2. What are the main varieties of Wuyi Rock Tea?
Wuyi Mountain is a kingdom of tea varieties. There are hundreds or thousands of major varieties such as Wuyi Narcissus, Wuyi Strange Species, Big Red Robe Iron Arhat, White Chicken Crown, Water Golden Turtle, and Half-Day Demon.
At the same time, there are also varieties with high export rates: Huang Dan, Huang Qi, Short-footed Oolong, Huang Dan, Hair Crab, Mei Zhan, Qilan, Eight Immortals, etc., but the charm is weak.
3. What are the five famous names of Wuyi Rock Tea?
White Chicken Crown, Iron Luohan, Water Golden Turtle, Big Red Robe, Half Sky Demon. Originally, it was a famous congregation, except for da hong Pao, but later Da Hong Pao was also listed as a separate cong.
Other well-known famous conglomerates are: Qidan, Qilan, Huang Guanyin, Cinnamon, Golden Key, Shilixiang, Lao Junmei, Golden Buddha, etc. These varieties are different and have different flavors.
4. What is the production process of Wuyi Rock Tea?
The production process of Wuyi Rock Tea is the tea with the most production process, the highest process technology requirements and the most complex of all teas.
The initial production process of Wuyi rock tea includes: picking, withering, drying, shaking, making green, killing green, kneading, drying process.
Wuyi rock tea refining process: mao tea initial picking, sieving, re-picking, wind selection, initial roasting, even stacking, re-roasting, refined tea.
5. How to understand the "rock rhyme" of Wuyi rock tea?
"Rock rhyme" is a unique feature of Wuyi rock tea; the existence of "rock rhyme" depends on the growth environment of tea plants; the strength of "rock rhyme" is also affected by tea varieties, cultivation management and production processes.
Rock rhyme characteristics are not craft production characteristics, rock rhyme represents the innate regional tree species characteristics: the advantages and disadvantages of tree species, the advantages and disadvantages of tree species growth environment are all innate conditions.
The embodiment and feeling description of the rock rhyme (characteristics): the taste has a special mellow feeling, people say "there is a bone feeling in the water" on this meaning; after drinking back sweet, long aftertaste; throat rhyme is obvious; the aroma is persistent and thick regardless of the height, the cold smell is also fragrant; the tea is resistant to bubbles, generally can be brewed more than 7-10 water; the quality is stable (tea is resistant to storage).
6. Is there a grade of Wuyi Rock Tea?
All teas have grades in addition to varieties. The growth environment of tea plants (altitude, whether the land skin is rich, etc.) determines the innate quality of tea; the age of tea plants also affects the taste and taste of tea; the production process and roasting process of tea all affect the quality of tea.
7. Why does Wuyi Rock Tea taste a little astringent?
All tea has a bitter feeling, like Pu'er, green tea, etc., Wuyi rock tea pursues rock tea aroma, throat rhyme, raw jin back to gan, if you drink to the mouth only astringent but not back to gan sheng jin, then the tea is not good. In addition, there are several aspects of astringency, one is brewing skills, the other is the characteristics of varieties, and the third is the production factor.
8. Which season has the best quality Wuyi rock tea?
Wuyi Rock Tea is produced all year round and can be divided into: spring tea, summer and summer tea, autumn tea and winter tablets. But in general, the rock tea of spring tea, water is the best, and the tea aroma of winter tablets is the best, which is related to the physiological characteristics of tea plants and weather and climate.
9. How long can Wuyi Rock Tea be put?
Everyone knows that the storage method of Wuyi Rock Tea is quite simple, either sealed and packed, or directly encapsulated in boxes. Rock camellia is recommended to drink within a few years in the case of sealing, because of its high water content, the time is easy to oxidize the transformation, although the tea quality will not be bad, but the taste is not as good as the new tea fragrance.
The carbon-flavored rock tea in the rock tea can be sealed and placed for a long time.
10. Is Wuyi Rock Tea collectible?
The one with the collection price in rock tea is the carbon-flavored rock tea, but not all carbon-flavored rock tea has a collection price, which needs to be recommended by professionals and the production process of its tea needs to be studied.
In addition to its remarkable pharmacological function, chen tea has a mellow taste and a chen flavor, and is also a good choice for good teamakers. At present, the most collectible value is the Big Red Robe, Daffodil, Cinnamon, Iron Luohan, Water Golden Turtle, etc., which need to be sealed, protected from light, taste, high temperature, wet, and do not open it often.