Why is Raw Tea Price Higher Than Cooked Pu-erh?

Posted by naturalpuerh on October 23rd, 2019

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Friends who like to drink Pu-erh know that Pu-erh tea is divided into raw tea and cooked tea according to different production techniques. Raw tea and cooked tea coexist for many years and have their own consumer groups. I don't know if tea lovers have found that in terms of price, if the price is based on the customer's unit price, the cooked tea is cheaper and the raw tea price is higher. Why is this?

The first reaction of some tea friends is that the raw material grade of cooked tea is not as high as that of raw tea, because the cooked tea is not so strict with the raw materials after the fermentation process, and the raw tea production process is relatively simple, and the raw material requirements are higher. Therefore, the price is relatively high.

In fact, this statement is one-sided, and cooked tea has a national standard for raw material grades. Imagine if you use raw tea at the same raw material level and make raw tea and cooked tea separately. In terms of the complicated process of cooked tea, the cost is higher. So, should the price of cooked tea be higher than that of raw tea? The reality is that even if the above conditions are met, the price of raw tea is higher than that of cooked tea.

1. Common points of price impactThere are two aspects, one is the age of aging, and the other is the special scent and strain. Both of these aspects can affect the price of raw tea and cooked tea.

2. Different points of price impactThe main factors affecting raw tea prices are three factors: raw materials, production areas and seasons.Affecting the price of cooked tea is also a factor: packaging, inventory and brand.

3. Advantages and disadvantages of cooked tea and raw tea.

4, the high price of raw tea:Preserving tea: After the cooked tea leaves, it advocates the function of drinking and storing. Compared with raw tea, the preservation of cooked tea is less risky. As long as it is not mildewed and deteriorated, after more than 5 years of aging, the ware taste is basically exhausted and the quality is greatly improved, so the storage cost of cooked tea is low.The level of tea later is rich, but since it has not undergone a fermentation process, it needs to rely on the appropriate climatic conditions, temperature, humidity, storage location and other interactions to save the tea environment, and then after a long period of storage, can be transformed into a high quality Old raw tea, storage costs are high.Therefore, even in the case of excellent raw materials, as long as one of the tea storage environments does not meet the standard, the conversion will not achieve the expected effect, and the risk is greater. According to industry estimates, the storage cost of raw tea is at least three times that of cooked tea, and the time spent is 2-3 times that of cooked tea. Therefore, it is not surprising that raw tea is higher than cooked tea.

Raw materials: Raw tea is also higher than cooked tea in terms of the cost of raw material supply. Raw tea is basically picked by farmers. Under the current situation of rising materials, the labor cost has increased year by year. The raw materials of cooked tea are purchased in large quantities and processed, and the production cost is lower than that of raw tea.In summary, the cost of cooked tea is higher than that of raw tea only from the cost of process production. However, due to its large-scale production, production costs can be controlled in the later stages; raw tea, raw materials, production areas, picking costs, and aging The impact of conditions such as risk, the quality of raw tea and cooked tea in the same year, the price of raw tea is higher than cooked pu-erh.

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