source: reference message network
American media, American food and wine magazine "delicacy" electronic edition responsibility editor Max Falco Witz once drank the most popular tea in the world when he was in college. He recalled: "it tastes like rotten compost." It is Pu'er tea, a magical black tea made from ancient trees in remote forests of Southwest China's Yunnan province.
the 14 issue of the National Public Radio Website in March is entitled "as a composite tea, why does Puer attract fans and lots of money?" According to the report, he did not give up Pu'er tea. Several years later, when he visited a small tea shop in Fra, New York, he tried different kinds of Pu erh tea. He told reporters: "this is the experience I have never had before. Gentle, graceful and comforting, like a hug from my parents, it is my body's reboot. "
reported that unlike most Pu'er tea, most tea was not fermented by bacteria and yeast. Fermentation brings a variety of complex palate. From rough processing to fermentation, and then to an ideal taste, the price of some Pu'er tea exceeds the price of silver. Farr kowitz said that the quality of Pu erh tea can bring "physical relief, and the effect can last several hours".
Pu'er tea is a "slow" drink that can sip like a good wine. Like the premium liquor or the king of champagne champagne, Puer tea has also formed its brand, trademark and respected product, and has achieved its idol status.
Puer tea also has the difference of production age. 88 the green cake is a Pu'er tea produced by Menghai tea factory from 1988 to 1992. The famous tea man, Mr. Chen Guoyi, stored it with dry method to make it taste sweet. Farr kowitz said: "Puer tea has gained almost totem status. Everyone will point to it and say, "this is amazing."
reported that to be regarded as authentic Pu'er tea, then tea must grow in Yunnan Province, from the wild tea trees, dry in the sun, and fermented for weeks, months, years, and even decades. The essence of Pu'er tea obviously represents the idealized Shangri-La. In fact, Pu'er tea is named in a small town in Yunnan. It was a trade center in the early seventeenth Century. Pu'er tea is one of the tea made by the Chinese government as a product of origin protection.
Zhang Jinghong, a teacher at Yunnan University, says Puer tea is not only a beverage, it is the essence of Chinese culture. Chinese people domesticated wild wild tea plants for the first time in the world, and began to make tea, drink tea and trade in tea.
tea is the way of hospitality. Tea is used as a betrothal gift when negotiating marriage. When a religious ceremony is held, tea is consecrated to the ancestor. Chinese prose and poetry often associate tea with frugality, kindness and gentleness. Zhang Jinghong said that some locals in Yunnan worshipped tea trees instead of cutting them.
reported that the price of Puer tea varies greatly, mainly depending on the origin of tea. Puer tea growing in the forest is more expensive than that on the ridge. The price of some Pu'er tea is only a few dollars per kilo, but the price of Pu'er tea produced from some famous tea producing areas is high, such as the price of Puer tea sold by old ban Zhang, for example, at the price of $725 per kilogram, for example, the price of Pu'er tea produced in some famous tea producing areas. In 2005, the price of 500 grams of Pu erh tea produced in 1941 was more than 1 million yuan. Gbeli smiled and explained: "Chinese tyrants like to collect Puer tea." (compiling / Wu Mei)
data map: customers taste Pu'er tea at the Yunnan Tea Fair. Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Yiguang