Pu'er tea has always been very popular with all tea friends, because the more mature the tea, the more fragrant it is, it is also known as the "antiques" that can be drunk. It is very suitable for collection, delivery and use. This is also true. Many friends think that Pu'er tea can only be drunk after being preserved for a long time. Is it true? How long does Pu'er tea usually need to be stored for drinking?
In March and April every year, you will see many tea friends from all over the country rush to the major tea mountains in Yunnan, just to find a cup of their own early spring tea. You will see that it only takes three or four days to pick and drink a lot of spring tea. That is to say, when fresh leaves are picked, they start to be green, kneaded and dried, and then they are used for drinking. Therefore, Pu'er raw tea can not be drunk only after storage, and the new tea just made can also be drunk at once, but it is more irritant and green, and less palatable than that of Pu'er raw tea stored for a period of time.
So, how long is Pu'er raw tea good to drink? In fact, there is no clear statement about this issue in the industry at present. Generally speaking, the aging of loose tea for 6 months and the tea cake for more than one and a half years is a relatively suitable period for drinking. However, the taste will be different with different storage years and environments. In the long river of time, the transformation of Pu'er raw tea is also staged.
The freshly pressed tea has been placed for two or three months. The tea is heavy in nature, strong in flavor and astringent in taste. Its advantages and disadvantages are obvious. The fragrance is high and overflowing. At this time, the tea is suitable for tasting. Tasting new tea is more like "tasting fresh". Because the tea is too strong, it hurts the stomach and should not be drunk too much.
One year after the cake is pressed, the water vapor in the tea fades out, the taste tends to be stable, the thick feeling of the tea soup is enhanced, and the taste is also gradually strong. At this time, when you drink, you can taste the true feelings of a tea.
After seven years of storage and transformation of raw tea, the taste of aging will gradually appear, and the fragrance will be transformed into infinite possibilities in the years. It is possible that the original flower fragrance will be transformed into the aroma of fruit honey, or the original fragrance is weak, and now the fragrance is rich. The fun of tea storage is that it will surprise you from time to time. For tea of more than seven years, its nature will turn warm, and its effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the stomach is obvious.
The aged tea stored for 20 years or more has a pure fragrance and smooth taste, which is very rare. It is the tea that many old tea friends dream of.
Of course, the specific storage period of tea still depends on the personal taste. For a Pu'er, it's found that it's different every other year, every time of the year, to experience its taste and feel the surprises it brings you.
If you store a Pu'er raw tea in a dry place with low air humidity. Then, the color of this tea may not change much after it has been put on for more than ten years, because the late transformation of raw Pu'er tea is also a natural fermentation process, which requires a certain amount of water, and the fermentation process will be slow without a certain amount of water. This is a good understanding, the same tea in the northern warehouse, Kunming warehouse storage three or five years may not be as good as in Guangzhou warehouse storage one year conversion is the reason.