Mountain Miscellaneous

Chapter 209 Qingyan Mingcui
"Ha ha!"

Deng Fengmao smiled and didn't go on talking, the reality will give them the most real blow.

He used to naively thought that the tea in Dengcun was the best in the world, but time taught him the best lesson.

The innate quality of tea leaves is largely determined by invariable factors such as the geographical environment in which the tea trees grow, sunshine and humidity, etc. Again, it is a competition of tea making techniques!

Take Wulingyuan's "Qingyan Mingcui" as an example, it has a history of hundreds of years, and its geographical location is superior. It grows on a high mountain with an altitude of more than 1000 meters. The formation and growth have already won many tea brands innately.

In terms of tea making technology, "Qingyan Mingcui" won the silver medal of China Food Exhibition as early as the 80s of last century. Qingyan Mingcui is sold well all over the country, so it not only has a complete inheritance in tea making technology, but also has been practiced for decades Operation has been improved.

Under the cruel market competition, it is difficult for other small tea brands to gain a foothold in the tea market. They are satisfied with barely surviving in the cracks, and what extravagant expectation is the development of tea-making technology?
What's more, Dongfeng tea farms such as Lijia'ao were eliminated directly!

Therefore, there is a long distance between small brands and big brands in terms of innate geography, environmental conditions, and technical and technological background, and this distance will not be narrowed, but will only slowly expand over time!
Deng Fengmao is satisfied with being able to maintain the current status quo of Dengcun green tea. He has never thought about winning an award. A small brand in Dongfeng Tea Farm even he can't remember clearly wants to win an award at the tea judging meeting. too young!

For a moment.

After a leader of the Department of Health and Agriculture finished his speech, the tea review meeting officially began.

The evaluation experts refer to relevant international and national standards and combine the characteristics of tea quality in Zhongjiang Province to establish the evaluation method.

Each evaluation expert has a special tea evaluation cup in front of his seat, accurately weighs five grams of sample tea, brews boiling water at a ratio of 22:[-], and scrapes off the foam in the tea soup during brewing.

After resting for 2 minutes, take the soup and smell the aroma, then, take out the soup, look at the color of the soup, evaluate the taste, open the soup for the second time, brew for 3 minutes, follow the above operation, review in sequence, open the soup for the third time, and continue to follow the above steps after brewing for 5 minutes Operation, sequential review, comprehensive evaluation of aroma, soup color, taste and leaf bottom through three brewing.

The tea evaluation experts sitting on the rostrum are all over [-] years old. They are all people who have been dealing with tea for half their lives. They have drank more tea in their lifetime than many people have drank water. , The eyes are extremely sensitive to the tea fragrance, the taste of the tea soup, and the color of the tea. Some brands are unanimously eliminated after the first tea soup, and there is no need for the second tea soup.

After all, there are more than 100 tea brands participating in the selection. If each brand goes through three evaluation procedures, it will take at least three or four hours, while the tea evaluation will generally be controlled at about two and a half hours.

Xun Liang is nearly [-] years old, with white hair but full of energy. He has served as the president of the Zhongjiang Tea Association for more than ten years and has rich experience.

In just under an hour, more than 50 types of tea have been ruled out.

"Hey, the tea culture of Zhongjiang Province is not as good as Yuhe, Minzhou, Southern Yunnan and other tea provinces after all. There are too few teas that can get on the table every year, and there are always only a few tea factories!"

According to the provisions of the Tea Association, the maximum age of the chairman of the Tea Association shall not be greater than [-]. In the last year when Xun Lianggong presided over the tea review meeting, he still did not see any new tea that caught his eye, and he had drunk Qingyan Mingcui for decades. , has long lost its sense of freshness, and compared with those top tea brands, Qingyan Mingcui still has obvious disadvantages.

"Old Xun, this job of judging tea is really hard work. I'm used to drinking those high-quality teas, and drinking these teas will grind my tongue!"

Sitting next to Xun Lianggong, Guan Chengji, the vice president of the Provincial Tea Association, took a sip of the tea leaves to be judged, and couldn't help complaining with a bitter face.

"It's only once a year, keep going! You are three years younger than me, and you can come for another three years. I will retire next year. My biggest regret is that I haven't seen a new tea brand appearing in Zhongjiang Province!"

Xun Lianggong shook his head. Having been the president of the Tea Association for more than ten years, he always felt unsatisfactory.

"Nowadays is different from the past. It is difficult for small brands to survive in the market. The tea mountains in many places have long been abandoned. It is very good that our Zhongjiang Province can maintain more than 100 tea brands. How dare we expect new tea brands to emerge! "

Two hours later, Xun Lianggong's frowning brows finally eased a bit, and Guan Chengji's face also burst into a smile.

The tea leaves in the tea judging cup are beautiful in shape, tightly knotted, round and curved, with white hairs exposed, and emerald green in color. Judging from the meat quality, it has a strong fragrance and a mellow aftertaste. After flushing, the tea soup is bright green and the bottom of the leaves is even good tea!

"It's still the familiar old taste that makes me feel better, especially after drinking so many other small brands of tea!"

Xun Lianggong felt refreshed after taking a sip.

"Qingyan Mingcui has become the last fig leaf for the tea industry in Zhongjiang Province. It seems that this year's gold award will go to Wulingyuan again!"

Just smelling the tea fragrance, Guan Chengji knew that the tea in the cup must be Qingyan Mingcui from Wulingyuan.

"Well, choose three more silver awards and five bronze awards, and give those small tea brands some opportunities to show their faces, which can be regarded as support!"

Xun Lianggong's tea life is about to come to an end, and he can't help booing in his heart.

According to the experience of previous years, after drinking Qingyan Mingcui, the tea review meeting is basically over, and no one cares about the other silver and bronze awards. Some small brands ask the leaders of the Department of Agriculture to say hello. These places are useful for favors.

The medium and large tea brands have basically been announced, and only the last few small tea brands have not been reviewed. Xun Lianggong has given up any hope for this.

"Huh? This tea is interesting!"

When the last pack of samples was brewed in the judging cup, Xun Lianggong immediately smelled a pleasing fragrance, and the color of the soup was light green, bright and clear, the bottom of the leaves was even and tidy, and it had the potential of high-quality tea, so he immediately became interested.

"The tea fragrance, tea soup, and leaf bottom of the first soup are no worse than Wulingyuan's Qingyan Mingcui!" Guan Chengji said in surprise as he was ready to call it a day.

"Let's see which tea factory it is from?"

"Dongfeng Tea Farm!"

"Dongfeng Tea Farm?"

Xun Lianggong remembered that a director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture approached him and asked him to help give Dongfeng Tea Farm a place to participate in the agricultural exhibition.

(End of this chapter)