Brewing difficulty: General difficulty.

Best season to taste: Autumn.

Origin: Yunnan and Sichuan Province.

Fermented Tuo Tea.

Shape: square and regular. It is bowl-shaped with compact texture. It is brown red, dark with hidden yellow.

Liquid: red thick and translucent.

Aroma: thick.

Taste: thick, fresh, cool and mellow.

Brewed tea leaves: brown red, resistant to infusions.

Unfermented Tuo Tea.

Shape: dry Tuo tea is square with smooth outline and in compact texture.

Liquid: orange or light yellow, bright and clean.

Aroma: thick.

Taste: thick, with sweet aftertaste.

Brewed tea leaves: between green and brown, the texture is soft with freshness.

Fermented Tuo tea
Packing: the packing paper of real fermented Tuo tea is brilliant and bright with clear pictures and words. That of the imitated goods is coarse paper. The color is easy to fall off and the pictures and letters are dark and old.
Dry tea: the real fermented Tuo tea is square and straight in uniform size.

Unfermented Tuo tea
Dry tea: the real unfermented Tuo tea is square, bowl-shaped, with deep and round fossa. The surface is covered with white fuzz. The fake unfermented Tuo tea is irregular and distorted with shallow and small fossa. The surface isn’t covered with fuzz.
Tea soup: the liquid of the real unfermented Tuo tea is yellow and bright with pure and lasting aroma. It tastes thick, mellow, fresh and cool. The brewed tea leaves are stout, fresh and tender. But the liquid of the fake is turbid, green with yellow. The aroma is light even with other odor. It tastes sour and astringent. The brewed tea leaves are coarse, old, thin and hard.

Water temperature: boiling water.

Tea sets: try to use the comparatively large teapot for continued infusions, not affecting the water temperature.