Why do some Pu'er raw tea smell like smoke? Some teas on the market also deliberately highlight their smoke flavor, which is easy to confuse tea lovers, whether the smoke taste is considered tea fragrance? How did it come about?
The aroma of tea comes from the fragrant substances in Pu'er tea, and our common tea aromas include fragrance, floral fragrance, fruity aroma, honey fragrance, plum fragrance, almond fragrance, etc., but there is no smoke fragrance. Some Pu'er raw tea soup has a smoke smell, and even dry hair tea or tea cakes can smell smoke.
The smoke smell is usually produced in the initial processing of Mao tea, which is generally caused by the poor conditions of the initial processing site and the non-standard initial technology. For Pu'er tea, the smell of smoke is the sign of some teas, and most of the tea in many areas was drunk with the smell of smoke in the nineties and twenty-seven years ago of the last century, which was actually related to the poor processing environment and immature initial technology at that time.
This is mainly due to the fact that the tea itself has strong moisture absorption and alien absorption characteristics, while absorbing moisture in the air, other odor gases are also adsorbed by the tea with water vapor.
After these years of development, along with the improvement of people's requirements for tea quality, the processing environment and technology of Pu'er tea have also been improved and improved. Judging from Yunhai's standards, well-fried Pu'er tea should not smell smoky.