The inside story of the disappointing high-priced Puer tea
Due to the limited amount of old Pu'er tea in existence, especially the old tea that is properly stored, which is less circulated in the market, and the old tea has attracted much attention due to its characteristics of "the older the better" and the sky-high price at the auction, driven by interests, many unscrupulous merchants will use aging methods to make "old tea" to meet the market demand for old tea, so it is not uncommon to see old tea in the market.
That is, any tea that sells well and has a similar cotton paper layout to this tea will play a marginal ball at this time. In fact, "Ba Ba Qing" is a good example. Except for the one in the hands of Teacher Chen Guoyi, there are many "Ba Ba Qing" on the market. We are not saying that these teas have problems here. In fact, the year is the same as the factory, and it tastes good. It's just that there are a lot of counterfeit teas on the market. For example, the cotton paper of raw tea and cooked tea of the same period is the same, but the cooked tea can never be sold at the same price as raw tea, so some merchants will use the cotton paper of these cooked teas to wrap raw tea and make a profit from it.
So we say that in the market of middle-aged and old tea, we generally pay attention to the original package. Another relatively crude way is to falsify the year of the raw materials. In fact, I call it a high-tech product in our circle. How to do it? It is to use low-end tea for micro-fermentation, and then mix a little new tea into it to create a tea soup with a very dark color, smooth to drink, and a feeling of honey fragrance. So if some friends like to drink smoky tea, smoke you some smoke, and then tell you that this is a pure dry old tea with smoky fragrance, in fact, this kind of tea is worrying in terms of hygiene, not to mention the value of storage.
I think tea is more used for drinking. First of all, make sure that the tea is clean and hygienic, and secondly, the taste. So we sell tea from the source. We choose the right tea in the place of origin of tea and sell it to everyone, so that everyone can drink clean and hygienic tea. Many good old teas are slowly stored by themselves, and then feel the changes brought by time, rather than simply being affected by market information.
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