The first step of tea tasting: smell the tea
First, pour the tea into a white porcelain cup or scenting cup, and use your nose to sniff the tea leaves to see if there are any floral, creamy, fruity or other scents, which are produced by the type of tea leaves and the production method.
After smelling the aroma of the tea leaves, start looking for odors such as stinky green smell, sour smell, moldy smell or miscellaneous smell, which generally come from the process of tea manufacturing or improper collection.
Four steps to tell you how to taste tea
The second step of tea tasting: look at the color
After smelling the aroma, you should observe the color of the tea broth. Good tea leaves produce a bright and clear tea broth. If the color of the tea broth is too thick or too light, the tea may have been steeped for too long or not long enough.
Generally speaking, a professional tea taster can tell if the tea is brewed properly just by looking at the tea broth.
Four steps to tell you how to taste tea
Tea Tasting Step 3: Drinking Tea Soup
Do not drink the tea broth too much, hold the tea broth in your mouth and keep stirring the tea broth in your mouth with the tip of your tongue. As the tongue is sensitive to different tastes, the astringent taste sensation is at the tip of the tongue and the bitter taste sensation is at the root of the tongue, stirring the tea soup with the tongue will help to stimulate the taste sensation of the tongue and taste the bitterness, sweetness and astringency of the tea soup.
Four steps to tell you how to taste tea
The fourth step of tea tasting: viewing the bottom of the leaves
After tasting, pour out the tea leaves to see the integrity and size of the tea leaves. Usually good tea leaves are intact with large leaves.
Good tea is like a delicious dish, it is all about color and flavor, only when you learn how to taste tea can you really feel the fullness of the tea leaves.