Tea Knowledge - Do you understand the "sweetness after taste", "saliva production", and "throat rhyme" of tea?

When drinking tea, tea lovers judge a tea by "sweetness after taste", "saliva production", "throat rhyme", "throat lock", "astringency" and other aspects, but how many people really understand these professional terms of tea!

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1. What is sweetness after taste

As the name suggests, it is the process of bitterness turning into sweetness in the mouth, so-called bitterness turns into sweetness. This is a taste experience that occurs during tea tasting. After the bitterness, a sweet taste often appears in the mouth. This phenomenon is called sweetness after taste.

2. What is saliva production

It refers to the secretion of saliva in the mouth, including the cheeks, tongue surface, and tongue bottom. Saliva production in the mouth can quench thirst and moisturize the mouth. When you are in a sub-healthy state and feel uncomfortable, you often feel dry mouth and tongue, and your throat is locked. Only a healthy body has the ability to produce saliva naturally.

3. What is throat rhyme

In simple terms, it is the feeling that the tea soup brings to the throat after drinking tea, such as being moisturized and relieving the dry feeling of tightness. Therefore, throat rhyme has always been the most popular among tea lovers. For more experienced old tea drinkers, throat rhyme is an important condition for them to judge the quality of tea. Most of the teas with strong throat rhyme are full of sweetness. In other words, only after satisfying the taste stimulation in the mouth can the tea soup penetrate into the throat and even produce the feeling of heat in the esophagus and stomach.

If the tea has no throat rhyme, after swallowing the tea soup, all the feelings end completely in the mouth. So sometimes we can hear some old tea drinkers pointing to the throat and saying "I feel the tea soup has gone down here" after drinking good tea.

4. What is throat lock

After tasting tea, the throat feels tight and itchy, too dry, and difficult to swallow, which can be collectively referred to as throat lock. The quality of tea that makes people feel that the throat is locked is usually not very good. It locks the bottom of the throat, dries the palate, and makes the tongue numb, which makes people uncomfortable. It is recommended that you avoid such tea.

5. What is astringency

The word "astringency" is used by many people, but few people understand it. In fact, astringency is related to the bitterness and astringency of tea. It is the intensity of the perceived time between the bitterness and astringency turning into sweetness. The stronger the astringency of the tea, the shorter the process of bitterness and astringency being perceived and disappearing after entering the mouth, and turning into sweetness; if the astringency is weak, the bitterness and astringency will disappear slowly in the mouth or the bitterness and astringency will continue in the mouth.

The bitterness and astringency of a tea will be quickly perceived by the sensory organs of the mouth as soon as it enters the mouth. How long will this feeling last in the mouth? This depends on the astringency of this tea.

6. What is the sticking time in the cup

The sticking time in wine refers to the time that the wine remains in the wall of the cup. The slower the wine flows, the longer the sticking time, which means that the sugar content in the wine is higher. The "sticking time" mentioned in tea tasting does not refer to the time the tea soup hangs on the wall of the cup, but the time the tea aroma remains on the wall of the cup. The longer and richer the aroma lasts, and the longer it hangs on the cup, the better the tea.