How to distinguish the grades of Jin Jun Mei? How to distinguish the grades of Jin Jun Mei

Among Jin Jun Mei, the special grade Jin Jun Mei is very precious, with strong and tight leaves, black and glossy color, and obvious aroma of dried longan or pine smoke. After brewing, the aroma is pure and melodious, the taste is mellow and sweet, with a hint of alpine charm, the soup is orange-yellow and translucent, and the bottom of the leaves is soft, upright, wrinkled, and bronze. So how to distinguish the grades of Jin Jun Mei? What are the grades? Let's learn more about it!

Contents of this article

1. How to distinguish the grades of Jin Jun Mei

2. How to judge whether Jin Jun Mei has gone bad

3. Taboos of Jin Jun Mei

How to distinguish the grades of Jin Jun Mei

1. Special grade: The raw materials of special grade Jin Jun Mei are picked from the original ecological Zhengshan Xiaozhong wild tea trees at an average altitude of about 1,000 meters in Tongmuguan. This wild tea tree is also called vegetable tea and unique species, and the age of the tree is hundreds of years. Special grade Jin Jun Mei is very precious, with strong and tight leaves, black and glossy color, and obvious longan dry fragrance or pine smoke fragrance. After brewing, the aroma is pure and melodious, the taste is mellow and sweet, with alpine charm, the soup color is orange and translucent, the leaf bottom is soft, tender, upright, wrinkled, and bronze.

2. Grade One: The raw materials of Grade One Jin Jun Mei are picked from Wushandi, Chengdun Town and other areas around Tongmuguan. The trees are younger and are the original ecological Zhengshan Xiaozhong tea trees introduced from Tongmuguan. In addition to Jin Jun Mei, Yin Jun Mei and Tong Jun Mei are also produced here. Compared with the special grade Jin Jun Mei, the tea leaves of Grade One Jin Jun Mei are still strong, but slightly stemmed, the color is still dark, the soup color is still bright orange-yellow, and the bottom of the leaves is bronze, but slightly darker.

3. Second Grade: The raw materials of the second grade Jin Jun Mei are picked from artificial tea gardens in other mountainous areas of Wuyi Mountain. Therefore, the quality of this Jin Jun Mei is not as good as the special and first grade tea produced by the original ecological tea trees. The tea leaves are slightly thick and solid, with more stems, less dark and moist color, orange-yellow soup color, and slightly coarse and hard leaves with a slightly dark copper color.

4. Grade 3: The raw materials of Grade 3 Jin Jun Mei are picked from Fu'an, Zhenghe and other places outside Wuyi Mountain, but still in the mountainous areas of Fujian Province. The tea trees are not Zhengshan Xiaozhong tea trees, but the hybrids of Fuding Dabaicha and Yunnan Dayecha, "Fuyun No. 6 and Fuyun No. 7". The tea leaves of this tree species are used to make both green tea and black tea. The Jin Jun Mei produced is coarse and loose, with thick stems, more fluff, dark color, slightly flat aroma, slightly coarse taste, dark red soup color, different leaf bottom shapes, and poor tenderness.

5. Grade 4: Grade 4 Jin Jun Mei is produced in Zhejiang and other places outside Fujian Province. The raw materials are made from single buds of green tea and yellow tea. Its quality characteristics are that the small-leaf tea has thin and tight strands, the large-leaf tea has strong strands, the color is black and shiny, and there are many golden hairs. After brewing, the soup color is bright red, the aroma is rich, and the taste is mellow.

How to judge whether Jin Jun Mei has gone bad

1. Look at the appearance: If it is expired and spoiled Jin Jun Mei, the color of the tea leaves will change to a certain extent, most of them will turn white or have mold. In terms of texture, expired tea leaves are mostly light and have poor flexibility, and they will break when twisted.

2. Smell: Expired tea smells significantly different from normal tea, usually with stale, moldy and other unpleasant odors.

3. Try brewing: Take a small portion of tea leaves for brewing. The tea brewed from expired Jin Jun Mei will become thicker and darker in color, and the aftertaste or astringency of the tea will also be significantly reduced.

Taboos of Jin Jun Mei

1. Jin Jun Mei is a black tea, which is warm in nature. It is not suitable for people with a constitution that gets easily irritated.

2. Black tea is not suitable for drinking when it is cold, as it will affect its stomach warming effect, and leaving it for too long can also reduce its nutritional content.

3. Tea has a stimulating effect on the nerves. Therefore, it is not suitable to drink Jin Jun Mei tea before going to bed to avoid insomnia.

4. Jin Jun Mei contains a lot of tannic acid. Therefore, you should not eat other high-protein, high-calcium foods when drinking this tea to avoid affecting absorption.