What kind of Pu 'er tea is worth collecting?

To tell the truth, I never thought Pu 'er tea would have today's grand occasion, and it is a best-selling country. The era of "Shi Sheng Pu 'er" is coming!

From more than 600 tons in the mid-1960s to nearly 50,000 tons now, it can be said that the growth rate of Pu 'er tea production and sales has been the highest among all special teas in China. Talking about the hot sale of Pu 'er tea, I never thought how much money I would make when I set foot in the tea industry from 1996. At that time, as a supplier of Pu 'er tea in Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, I could only earn some processing fees. But it's different now. Since 2000, after the overseas market gradually saturated, Pu 'er tea began to lead the domestic market all the way.

It is understood that the market of Pu 'er tea at that time was limited to the Southeast Asian generation. There is a strange phenomenon: in China, even the origin of Pu 'er tea-Yunnan, few people drink Pu 'er tea. During 1997, foreign merchants mentioned Pu 'er tea in five-star hotels in Yunnan, but no one knew about it, because local people only drank Yunnan red and Yunnan green.

Since 2000, with people's understanding of Pu 'er tea, this situation has completely changed, and the main market of Pu 'er tea began to turn to China.

The prosperity of Pu 'er tea in China is closely related to the drinking, selling, fermentation and overseas promotion of Pu 'er tea by Guangdong and Hongkong businessmen. The earliest fermented Pu 'er tea appeared in Hong Kong, and its fermentation technology and collection value were discovered by Guangdong and Hong Kong businessmen through years of experience in drinking and selling tea.

A true joke:

In the 1990s, a Hong Kong businessman who was familiar with the value of aged Pu 'er tea went to China to look for aged Pu 'er tea, and finally found a batch of Pu 'er tea that had been stored for more than ten years in a state-owned tea factory in Yunnan. Hong Kong businessmen were very happy and immediately found the old factory director to pay a high price to buy them all. But the factory director was frightened by the generosity of Hong Kong businessmen, because Pu 'er tea at that time was considered to have a "shelf life", usually three years. Now this batch of Pu 'er tea that Hong Kong businessmen want has passed the "shelf life". The honest and frank old factory director strongly disagreed. Finally, under the pressure of rising prices from Hong Kong businessmen, all the tea leaves were poured into the river in front of everyone. ...

Due to the unique function and value of Pu 'er tea, the consumption group of Pu 'er tea has shifted from middle age to younger generation. Many enthusiasts not only drink tea by themselves, but also invest huge sums of money in collection, because as fermented tea, the value of Pu 'er tea is constantly improving, and different flavors will appear every once in a while. Compared with new tea, the astringency of old tea will be reduced or even disappeared, replaced by mellow aroma, and the color of soup will change from opaque yellow to bright red. Secondly, finding a good tea cake can give fans a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Although Pu 'er tea sells well, not everyone can manage it well. Only those who really understand Pu 'er tea can manage Pu 'er tea well.

Tea source is the guarantee of tea quality, so the most important thing for a tea factory is to obtain raw materials. "Because tea is an agricultural product, it is handed over bit by bit by many scattered tea farmers, and the original quality standards are difficult to control, not to mention the intermediate link of tea vendors. If the quality is not well grasped, it is easy to cause problems, because the source tea is mixed with good and bad, and there are various situations. If some water exceeds the standard and there are many impurities, it will bring great losses to the tea factory after one year. Moreover, the larger the production scale of the tea factory, the greater the loss. Therefore, from the perspective of profit, tea source is very important. "

The rumor that "the older Pu 'er tea is, the better" is not entirely correct. Only hand-refined or autoclaved Yunnan big leaf species and sun-dried green hairy tea have collection value.