Liubao tea from Guangxi is a unique tea product that originated during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty in China. It was praised as one of the 24 famous teas in the country at the time for its distinctive betel aroma. Imagine taking a sip of this historic tea and feeling like you’ve traveled back in time to that elegant era.
The traditional packaging for this tea is quite distinctive and usually takes the form of a bamboo basket. Not only is this environmentally friendly, but it also has a wonderful effect: it allows the tea to continue to naturally transform during long-term storage, becoming more and more mellow. It’s like providing the tea with a “hutch” in which to slowly mature and ferment.
Liubao tea is also processed into various shapes to make it easier to store. Some are pressed into cakes, bricks or balls, which look like small works of art; others are made into coins or cylinders, which look special and interesting. Of course, if you prefer a free and casual feel, you can also choose loose Liubao tea and enjoy the unrestrained tea aroma.
Shape:
The tea leaves are tight, thin and round and straight, each one is even and neat, without jaggedness, showing a regular form and highlighting the quality characteristics of the tea.
Color:
The color is mainly dark brown and black, the surface is oily and glossy, like a thin layer of grease, with a unique texture, giving people a deep and elegant feeling.
Soup color:
After brewing, the tea broth shows a deep red color, clear and bright, under the light, the tea broth is glittering, pure and without any impurities.
Aroma:
The aroma is unique, pure and rich, and when you taste it carefully, you can also feel the light betel nut aroma mixed with it, which is long and intoxicating with the hot air.
The taste:
of the wine is unique, mellow and sweet, rich and full, leaving a long-lasting sweet aftertaste in the mouth, which makes you feel relaxed physically and mentally after drinking the wine.
Tea leaves after brewing:
The color of the leaf bottom is mainly brown and dark brown, the leaves are tender, soft and glossy, and each piece is in excellent condition, showing the excellent quality of the tea.
Liubao Town, Cangwu County, Wuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Tea set selection of white porcelain bowl is preferred, purple sand pot is preferred, tea and water ratio of 1:20, water temperature of 100 ℃, moistening tea, water injection after 10s soup, can be brewed more than 10 times.
Black tea can be stored for a long time.
Black tea loose tea can be used kraft paper bags, gabion baskets, clay pots first, small baskets loaded with day tip tea, brick tea, cake tea can be loaded into odorless cardboard boxes, while the relative sealing, to maintain breathability, and finally placed in the study or tea room preservation, pay attention to the environment and the circulation of air.
Bare tea, packaged tea, not similar products and products of different manufacturers should not be mixed, so as not to cascade flavor.
Control temperature: below 25℃, relative humidity: below 70%.
Those who are weak, like to eat meat, have poor stomach and intestines, high blood pressure, overweight people
Malnourished people, long-term vegetarians
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