铁观音茶汤

铁观音的茶汤醇香馥郁，留香持久，但是我们在购买铁观音茶叶(轻发酵安溪铁观音) ---走进茶叶市场，面对各种各样的茶叶品种，常为不知如何判别茶叶质量而犯愁。

其实评判茶叶质量的好与差，目前主要借助视觉、嗅觉、味觉和触觉，采用一看，二闻，三摸，四尝来确定茶叶质量。所谓一看，就是看茶叶的外形，干看茶的形态和色泽，湿看茶的嫩度、匀度和汤色。二闻，就是闻茶的香气，采用干闻和泡茶后湿闻相结合的方法进行。三摸，就好似摸茶叶的身骨，重实与轻飘，光洁与粗糙，以及用手研磨，估量安溪铁观音茶叶水分的高低等。四尝，就是选购茶叶时，凡“吃不准”，不妨泡一杯，尝一尝滋味。

评价铁观音茶汤优劣可以通过以下几个指标：1）汤香；2）顺滑程度：3）苦涩感；4）味觉元素丰富程度；5）回甘程度：

怎样评价安溪铁观音茶汤

步骤/方法

1

汤香：鼻子靠近刚冲出的茶汤，微微一嗅，优等品都会带有明显的汤香，尤其是“煌口香”特征的茶品汤香更为突出；

2

顺滑程度：茶汤略凉后入口，高阶品茶汤黏稠中带有米汤香，口感极为柔细——但如果品茶者味觉迟钝，很可能不容易感觉到茶汤柔滑与否的差异，对这部分茶友，我们建议喝中端茶品足矣。

3

苦涩感：入口允许微苦，但苦尾不退者劣；涩是比较忌讳的指标，不过如果涩感轻微且很快消退，那就不怎么影响口感，但即便如此，茶品等级也下降了一个梯队——因为高阶铁观音不允许有涩感存在。

4

味觉元素丰富：茶汤味道越丰富越好——好比熬一锅汤，多放材料者味道肯定更多，材料少者味道就比较单薄。高阶与终端产品最重要的区分就在于此：高端铁观音采用优质茶青原料制造，茶青叶片肥厚、富含有机无机元素，对应的茶汤味道也更丰富；中端品相对就会弱一些，虽然它也能够具备不苦不涩、茶汤顺滑等特征。

5

回甘程度：回甘快且强、持久为优，尽管轻发酵观音的回甘表现不可能同中发酵观音比拟，但高阶品还是要求回甘能够相对明显、持久，至少那些喜爱轻发观音的茶友在品饮时能够明显地感觉到。

英语翻译

Tieguanyin's tea soup is mellow and fragrant, and the fragrance lasts long, but we are buying Tieguanyin tea (lightly fermented Anxi Tieguanyin) ---Walking into the tea market, facing a variety of tea varieties, often do not know how to judge the quality of tea And worry.

In fact, when judging the quality of tea, we mainly use sight, smell, taste and touch to determine the quality of tea with one look, two smells, three touches, and four tastes. The so-called look is to look at the shape of the tea, the shape and color of the tea when it is dry, and the tenderness, evenness and color of the tea when it is wet. The second smell is to smell the aroma of tea, using a combination of dry smelling and wet smelling after making the tea. Three touches are like touching the body bones of a tea leaf, heavy and light, smooth and rough, and hand-grinded to measure the level of moisture in the tea. Four tastings means that when buying tea, you might as well make a cup and have a taste if you are "unsure about it".

The quality of Tieguanyin tea soup can be evaluated through the following indicators: 1) Tangy fragrance; 2) Smoothness: 3) Bitterness; 4) Abundance of taste elements; 5) Degree of sweetness:

How to evaluate Tieguanyin tea soup

Steps/Methods

1

Tangxiang: The nose is close to the freshly brewed tea soup, with a slight sniff, the high-quality products will have obvious soup aroma, especially the tea soup with the characteristics of "huangkouxiang" is more prominent;

How to evaluate Tieguanyin tea soup

2

Smoothness: After the tea soup is slightly cold, you can take it in the mouth. The high-end tea soup is thick and has the fragrance of rice soup, and the taste is very soft-but if the tea taster is dull, it may not be easy to feel the difference between the smoothness of the tea soup. For this group of tea lovers , We recommend drinking mid-end tea is sufficient.

How to evaluate Tieguanyin tea soup

3

Bitterness: slight bitterness is allowed in the entrance, but the bitter tail is inferior; astringency is a more taboo indicator, but if the astringency is slight and fades quickly, it will not affect the taste, but even so, the tea grade has also dropped An echelon-because the high-level Tieguanyin does not allow a sense of astringency.

How to evaluate Tieguanyin tea soup

4

Taste elements are rich: the richer the tea soup, the better-it is like boiling a pot of soup. Those with more ingredients will taste more, and those with less ingredients will taste thinner. The most important distinction between high-end products and end products lies in this: high-end Tieguanyin is made of high-quality tea green raw materials, the tea green leaves are thick, rich in organic and inorganic elements, and the corresponding tea soup taste is richer; the middle-end products are relatively weak , Although it can also have the characteristics of not being bitter, not astringent, and the tea soup is smooth.

How to evaluate Tieguanyin tea soup

5

The degree of sweetness: quick and strong, long-lasting is better. Although the performance of lightly fermented Guanyin is not comparable to that of medium-fermented Guanyin, high-end products still require that it be relatively obvious and lasting, at least for those teas that like lightly-fermented Guanyin. Friends can clearly feel it when drinking.