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How to Identify the Quality of Keemun Black Tea

Keemun black tea, history tea in China, is famous for its tea boutique,it also be called QI, mainly produced in Anhui Keemun County area. QI have pros and cons, then how consumers could identify it?
Keemun Black tea
The best natural quality of Keemun Black tea production is in the main square area of Likou, Sanli and Pinli. Local yielding make high quality tea varieties, planted in the fertile soil of red, yellow, with mild climate, abundant rainfall, moderate sunshine, so tender leaves and contains a wealth of water-soluble substances, so the best quality harvest is in August. QIs’ appearance is of the cable tight Leveling, beauty, color zeu Run ( commonly known as " Glory " ); endoplasmic Qing Fang and flavor with honey, tea also contains fragrant orchids ( known as " Keemun incense" ), fragrance lasting;it soup is bright red, mellow taste sweet and fresh, the bottom ( soaked tea leaves ) is also bright red.A clean drinking tastes of the most timeless aroma, mellow will not missing even add milk.
The identification of Keemun is a technical live, mainly from the following aspects to assess:
1 shape: Good cable tight, uniform homogeneous mass, whereas the cable thick pine, uniform homogeneous poor, the quality is less good.
2 color: bright red, shiny, is good quality, on the contrary, inconsistent color, there is a dark ashes dry tea, then the quality is not good.
3 Aroma: fragrant aroma is good quality, aroma impure, with the smell of grass,bad quality, the aroma is inferior low stuffy.
4 soup: soup bright red, cup of tea in the assessment form golden circle edge was excellent, the soup owed bright is less good, deep muddy soup for the poor.
5 Taste: mellow taste is excellent, the bitter taste is less good, bad taste is crude.
6 the bottom: Securinega bright, good quality, the bottom of anthocyanin less good, the bottom black bar is darker and more inferior.
6 the bottom: Securinega bright, good quality, the bottom of anthocyanin less good, the bottom black bar is darker and more inferior.
7 Keemun black tea color is reddish brown, cut into 0.6-0.8 cm, strong taste, strong alcohol, heavy and mellow. General fake tea with artificial coloring, taste bitter, weak, uneven shape of the leaf.
This article written by a Weifeng, if you are interested in it,please add Keemun Black Tea to have a colorful variety kind of tea for you to choose.

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