Comfortable in the mouth means that Puerh tea’s basic tastes of bitterness, astringency, aroma and sweetness are just right, and will not give people bad feelings such as excessive bitterness, astringency or sweetness when drinking it. Although it is often said that “no bitterness, no astringency is not tea”, if you only feel the bitterness when you drink it, then it means that the Puerh tea is not balanced in terms of composition, and there is too much of bitter and astringent substances. On the contrary, if this is a good Puerh tea, it should have a more balanced mix of various substances, and tend not to show a persistent bitter and astringent flavor, but rather a full-bodied tea broth, which will make you feel relieved when you drink it.

Sweetness is the opposite of “bitterness”. Sweetness, literally means that the sweetness has returned.
In fact, it is a flavor that the tea soup is bitter and astringent at the entrance, but as time goes by, the sweetness gradually exceeds the bitterness and astringency, and finally ends up with a sweet taste.

You can remember it like this: at the beginning, bitter > sweet, then sweet > bitter and finally, sweet. Cependant, just having sweetness back does not mean it is a good tea, because many Puerh teas have sweetness back, and some teas with very low grades also have sweetness back. Generally speaking, a strong and long-lasting sweet aftertaste can be considered good.

Warm tips: after drinking tea, you can drink a sip of cool white water, sweetness persistent good tea you will obviously feel the sweetness in your mouth.

“Smooth”, as shown in the tea broth after the entrance is not dry, not dry, an exaggeration, like the human body has not begun to swallow the soup has reached the throat of the illusion, the image is as ‘chocolate-like, silky smooth’ feeling.

Warm tip: Do not think that only Puerh old tea has a smooth and smooth tea broth taste, when drinking Puerh new tea, the whole tea broth wrapped around the tongue, smooth, moist, also represents that this is a good tea.

When drinking Puerh, especially new tea, after the tea soup enters the mouth, it will be one flavor at the tip of the tongue, another flavor at the surface of the tongue, and the root of the tongue will be different again. As the number of times of brewing increases, the taste of the tea broth will also change. This is the expression of layering, but also a characteristic of good tea.

To summarize when Puerh appears these 4 characteristics above, it means it is a good tea! How many characteristics have appeared in your Puerh?

Tasting tea is also like tasting yourself, when you pick up the tea and drink it lightly in the mouth, the aroma is fragrant and fresh through the body, are you also savoring yourself at this time?

The aging of tea is related to environmental factors, such as temperature, humidity, air, light, etc., which will cause physical and chemical changes to the inner quality of tea. Therefore, there should be a trick to preserve Pu-erh tea, put Pu-erh tea in a clean, certain temperature, humidity, in full contact with the air in order to effectively promote the aging of tea.

The best way to store Puerh tea is to: keep it out of direct sunlight, use packaging materials that are breathable; do not can it, do not bake it, do not freeze it; and keep a certain amount of moisture in the air intermittently. Pu-erh tea will reach its best quality period after being stored for a certain period of time.