How to taste and appreciate tea? TRY MORE.

多喝茶 自然懂好茶
很多人問老師傅，如何分辨好茶呢?

How to taste and appreciate tea?
TRY MORE. Selecting good tea. There is nothing for it but to taste and to experiment for yourself.

Be sure to use small cups whenever possible to really appreciate the tea, and to allow yourself to go through many infusions of the same leaf. Take a slow sip, let the tea liquor linger in your mouth. Swish it over the tip and sides of your tongue, noticing the texture and weight of the tea in addition to the flavor.

Remember the flavor of good tea. Your memory of taste will bring you to find good tea.

On your first sip, don’t try to place the flavor, or describe it. Just enjoy the full sensation. Wait until the second or third sip to begin contemplating the flavors.

First, there is the vegetable spectrum, which can be divided out into sharper taste, like fresh cut grass, but can also be more mild and leafy like spinach, or savory like asparagus. Grassy elements of flavor are most common in green teas, but can be present in oolong and some black teas.

Next, there is the fruity spectrum. This includes crisp fruity tastes like apple, but can be juicy like peach, citrusy like orange or distinctly sweet like banana. Oolongs are often characterized as fruity.

The darker side of the fruit spectrum is the berry flavor grouping. The tart side of this is like hibiscus, but darker more mild.

These flavor guidelines are only mentioned to give you a few ideas of words you can use to help think about and appreciate what you are tasting. Try to create your own personal flavor spectrum based on foods or tastes you identify with. The fun begins when a tea is not simply a single flavor, but an intriguing and unexpected combination of flavors.

喝茶就像聽音樂一樣，要學會欣賞音樂，就要多聽好的音樂。同樣，要能夠品嚐茶葉，也應該多喝好茶。