丨This article was originally written by Xiao Chen Chashi
丨First published in Baijiahao: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
With the arrival of December, a new round of cooling has begun.
In a flash, 2023 is old.
There are only more than 20 days left before New Year's Day and New Year's Eve.
At the end of the year, everything will be over.
Fortunately, even if the winter in the south cools down, the chill is not penetrating.
Wake up early in the morning and warm the window on a sunny day.
Bask in the sun drifting in from the window and drink a bubble of white peonies.
The sun is shining and the tea is fragrant.
Navel oranges are on the market, and the sweet chestnuts are ripe.
Winter life also has a lot of warm things and things.
Sometimes, I feel that modern people don't have to stick to "winter storage" for winter.
It's rare to have a sunny day in winter, and it's too boring to stay in the house.
Take a walk outdoors and bask in the sun, which is the best way to nourish leisure.
The same is true of tea life in winter.
The cup of tea that is suitable for winter does not necessarily have to be old, warm and sweet.
Green tea, flower tea, new white tea, foot fire rock tea, old white tea, black tea, etc., all kinds of good teas are listed first.
When making tea in winter, how to "turn over the brand"?There is a lot of exquisiteness.
There are choices and there are non-choices.
Do something, don't do something, and you can drink tea comfortably for the winter.
1. Drink old white tea in winter.
Precautions: Don't make tea as soon as you come up, don't make tea for a long time.
In autumn and winter, boiling old white tea is a big hit in the tea circle.
However, for unfamiliar old tea, it is not recommended to brew tea at the beginning.
It's like going out and just meeting a new friend.
When you place your first order for an old tea from a new merchant online.
After the goods are taken home, the old rules are a priori to check the quality.
Don't casually believe the statement that old white tea must be boiled and drunk.
In order to measure the quality, it is best to brew it with a white porcelain bowl, use boiling water to quickly make the soup, and smell whether there is any miscellaneous smell at the bottom of the leavesIs the tea soup mellow and full?
If the continuous boiling water comes out of the soup quickly, and it is soaked 3 times, the tea taste is still weak.
Obviously, this time I stepped on the thunder in the experience of buying tea and encountered inferior old tea.
The real high-quality old white tea does not need to rely on boiling tea and simmering for a long time to get the tea taste.
Simple and quick to brew, the tea soup is still sweet and mellow.
Although the old white tea with a mild tea flavor is suitable for all seasons and the public, especially in the winter after the cooling.
But when choosing tea, quality is the most important.
Those inferior old teas with poor raw materials, poor technology, and running out of gas during storage are not good to drink.
2. Drink green tea in winter.
Precautions: Avoid drinking on an empty stomach, you can relieve greasy after meals, and drink it in time while it is hot.
In the tea circle, although there is a saying that winter is red and summer is green.
But in reality, good tea knows no season.
As long as the quality is excellent and the tea taste is outstanding, no matter when and where, it can bring an extremely comfortable and wonderful tea drinking experience after brewing.
In the blink of an eye, it is already December, not far from the end of the year.
At this time, if you have a lot of spring 2023 green tea at home, you still haven't finished drinking it.
Don't stick to the saying "red in winter and green in summer", hurry up and find a chance to soak in it.
Otherwise, it will be too late to wait until the spring and summer of 2024 to drink the remaining green tea after the weather and warmth have warmed up.
Fresh and fragrant green tea is not recommended to be stored for a long time, but to drink it fresh as soon as possible.
After the second year, compared with the new tea of the year, the fresh and fresh flavor of the next year's green tea is in an awkward situation and does not have any competitive advantage.
It would be a pity if you left it for a long time and it expired at the end, and most of the green tea in a can of green tea was left undrunk.
It is better to seize the gap period before the new tea is on and drink the stock first.
However, when drinking green tea in winter, try to drink it after a meal.
In an empty stomach or semi-starved state, it is not recommended to drink unfermented green tea.
When you eat winter meals such as lamb scorpions, barbecue, and hot pot, it is a good choice to make a cup of green tea to relieve your greasy.
Brewing a cup after a meal can freshen the mouth, eliminate oiliness, and feel clean and comfortable from the tongue to the lips and teeth.
It should be noted that in winter, use a glass to brew green tea, remember to brew it in hot water, and do not choose cold brew tea.
After pouring boiling water and starting to brew tea, it is best not to walk away.
Warm your hands with a cup of hot tea.
Due to the low temperature in winter, the hot tea cools down quickly, and after a few minutes, the tea reaches a suitable temperature and can be drunk immediately.
The brewing time should not be too long, otherwise, the fresh and fragrant flavor of green tea will be distorted.
After brewing for a long time, the tea soup is cool, the aroma is wafting, and the taste is still bitter
3. Drink black tea in winter.
Precautions: Feel free to soak with boiling water, don't add ingredients indiscriminately to ruin the taste.
Black tea is a winter ration tea option for many new and old tea drinkers.
On the tea table in winter, the mild and fragrant black tea with full fermentation can be described as "nine out of ten sheng songs", and the probability of appearance is very high.
But for black tea suitable for winter, don't choose the strong, strong, and heavy taste.
Black tea with a strong taste and a strong taste, to be honest, is actually not a good tea.
High-quality alpine black tea, the flavor pays more attention to mellow, sweet and fresh.
After drinking, it will make people feel like a spring breeze, especially "moist".
It moistens the mouth and the heart.
The tea fragrance will not smell rushing, but is a very natural and comfortable floral, fruity, honey and sweet fragrance.
It doesn't smell weird, and it doesn't smell sour.
After brewing, although the entrance of the tea soup is not particularly sweet, it is sweet and soft, and the aroma is abundant.
Drink a few cups, the sweet aftertaste is long-lasting, and the moisturizing feeling in the throat is very strong.
Dry in winter, this needs such a cup of good black tea with a strong sense of moisturization to make adjustments.
However, when making black tea, tea lovers should no longer believe in the so-called 80-degree warm water brewing old yellow calendar.
Good tea, you can use boiling water to brew.
Especially in winter, the temperature is low, and if the water temperature is not boiling, it is difficult to fully stimulate the aroma and taste of a good black tea.
By the way, from the standpoint of drinking tea.
Tea is tea, pure and original taste.
To make black tea in winter, don't add messy apples, oranges, grapefruits, lemons, and milk.
Simple to drink the original flavor, the flavor is better.
Fourth, drink rock tea in winter.
Precautions: Don't throw too much tea into a single brew, don't make the tea taste stuffy.
Fujian people spend the winter, and rock tea is indispensable on the tea table.
Especially in season, the foot fire cinnamon, the foot fire daffodil, the foot fire big red robe.
A friend around him shared that he felt that drinking a soak of cinnamon in winter was worth a winter coat.
In the winter, sit on the tea seat every time.
Boil water to make tea.
Boiling hot water, aiming at the rock tea dry tea in the bowl.
After pouring water, the warm and pleasant roasting aroma such as hot caramel aroma, roasted melon seed aroma, and baking aroma is the first to be released.
After brewing a bright orange and yellow tea soup, pour it into the master's cup and slowly sip the tea.
The tea soup is fragrant, mellow and delicate.
The soup of cinnamon in the pit stream is mellow, mellow, fragrant and mellow, and the back to Ganli is also full of aroma.
The cinnamon from the rocky mountain field has a sharper and more prominent cinnamon fragrance, and the floral fragrance is more intense.
No matter what kind of flavor it is, as long as it is a good tea from Zhengyan that is roasted in place, it is a great pleasure to drink in winter.
However, tea lovers should check more carefully when making rock tea.
For example, the weight of a single bubble.
Rock tea packed in bubble bags, a single brew of 8 grams is the standard.
Put it in a gaiwan and soak it one bag at a time.
If you buy the tea in your hand, there are 10 grams or 13 grams of tea in a single brew, and this kind of over-packed tea is brewed at one time, and the taste is heavy, which is not suitable.
For example, the duration of soaking.
Gaiwan brews rock tea, and the tea taste is not soaked before it is light, and it is not recommended to be stuffy.
Hurry up and pour out the tea soup and separate the tea.
Otherwise, the tea flavor that can normally be brewed more than a dozen times will be concentrated to the first three flushes at one time.
Drinking too much of this strong and scorching strong tea does not do any good.
Make tea and drink it in winter, and there are not too many constraints.
As long as it is a good tea of good quality, you can drink it with confidence.
Between different types of tea, there are only flavor differences, and there is no difference in quality.
In addition to the tea leaves named above, there are many options on the winter tea table.
For example, new white tea, Pu'er, Tieguanyin, Dancong, Liubao, flower tea, etc.
However, in the end, it is still the same sentence.
Make tea in winter, don't be superstitious that the older the better, and don't be obsessed with the so-called handmade tea and master tea.
Or, it is ...... to blindly believe that tea suitable for brewing is more in line with the needs of tea drinking in winter
Wrong, wrong, wrong, those are rumors, not credible.
There is only one rigid standard for the selection of tea in winter.
The aroma, taste, and charm are excellent, and it is a good tea that is worth savoring!
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, column writer, the original innovation of the tea industry ** "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.