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Gaiwan

Diān Hóng Jīn Luó滇红金螺

Diānhóng jīn luó

Origin
China, Yúnnán Province (云南省, Yúnnán Shěng)
Tea type
Gaiwan
Water temperature
85 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
SKU · DIANHONG-JIN-LUO-CN
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Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Yúnnán Province (云南省, Yúnnán Shěng)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
DIANHONG-JIN-LUO-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 93°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 4 steeps
  • Western: 88°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Tea amount
4–5 g per 150 ml water (gongfu method); 3 g per 200 ml (European method).
Water temperature
85 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Tea-to-water ratio
10 s
Origin
Tea type
Red
Soil
Lateritic red soils (红壤, hóng rǎng) and yellow soils (黄壤, huáng rǎng) with acidic reaction (pH 4.5–5.5) predominate, rich in organic matter, iron and mineral compounds...
Taste
Liquor Aroma
Bright, enveloping. Honey-fruity dominance with shades of cocoa, caramelized sugar and wildflowers. As liquor cools, nuances of baked bread and nuts emerge.
Liquor Color
Bright, clear, from amber-orange to rich red-amber. Transparent, with pronounced golden ring (金圈, jīnquān) around cup edge — sign of high theaflavin content.
Spent Leaves
Whole, elastic buds and leaves, fully unrolled from spirals. Color copper-red, even, with well-distinguished golden buds. Leaf is elastic, lively.
Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
1
Sensory Source Descriptor Ch Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
3
Details
Cultivar
Main cultivar — Yúnnán Dà Yè Zhǒng (云南大叶种, Yúnnán Dàyèzhǒng, "Yunnan large-leaf"), belonging to *Camellia sinensis* var. *assam...
Picking
Main picking — spring (March–April), most valuable for amino acid and aromatic compound content. Summer and autumn pickings are also produced but are inferior to spring in tende...
Pluck Standard
For highest grades — exclusively buds (单芽, dānyá) or bud with one leaf (一芽一叶, yī yá yī yè). For standard Jin Luo — bud and one-two young leaves (一芽一叶, 一芽二叶). Unif...
Raw Material
Abundant golden down on buds is of special importance — it forms the calling card of Jin Luo. Raw material must be fresh, juicy, picked in morning hours after dew has dried.
Name Breakdown
— ཡུན་ནན་གྱི་གནའ་བོའི་མིང་ཞིག་ཡིན་པ་དང་། འདི་སྤྱི་ལོའི་སྔོན་གྱི་ 475–221 ལོའི་བར་དུ་ཏིན་ཚི་མཚོའི་འགྲམ་དུ་གྲུབ་པའི་དེན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ(滇国, Diānguó) ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན།
Alkaloids
Caffeine (咖啡碱) — 3–4% of dry mass (approximately 40–60 mg per 150 ml cup), theobromine, theophylline. Provide mild, prolonged tonic effect.
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