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Lèchāng Bái Máo Chá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Lèchāng Bái Máo Chá乐昌白毛茶
Lèchāng bái máochá
- Origin
- China, Guǎngdōng Province (广东, Guǎngdōng), Lèchāng City (乐昌市, Lèchāng...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
SKU · LECHANG-BAI-MAOCHA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Guǎngdōng Province (广东, Guǎngdōng), Lèchāng City (乐昌市, Lèchāng Shì)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- LECHANG-BAI-MAOCHA-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
- Western: 70°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- Rinse → first infusion 30 seconds → +10 seconds. 3–4 brewings.
- Tea amount
- 3 g per 150 ml (1:50).
- Teaware
- Glass tumbler or white porcelain gaiwan.
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Climate
- Average annual temperature — 19.6°C, annual precipitation — 1,500–1,900 mm, average annual number of foggy days — >180. Diurnal temperature variation — >10°C. Pr...
- Soil
- Red-yellow soils (花岗岩风化红黄壤) on granite foundation, pH 4.5–6.5. Organic content — ≥3%. Selenium — 0.018–0.066 mg/kg. Forest coverage — 90% — one of the highest indicators among t...
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Plump, tight, strong strips (肥壮紧结). Most abundant silvery down (披毫显著) — "calling card": Bai Mao Cha is one of the most "downy" green teas in China.
- Liquor Aroma
- High, orchid-chestnut, persistent. "Honey" depth.
- Liquor Color
- Tender green, bright and clear (嫩绿明亮) — for supreme grade; yellow-green — for standard grades.
- Spent Leaves
- Tender green, plump, strong shoots (嫩绿肥壮), uniform (匀整明亮).
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 3
Details
- Picking
- Spring. For supreme grade — one bud with one leaf. For first grade — one bud with two leaves. For second grade — one bud with three leaves.
- Cultural Significance
- Lechang Bai Mao Cha is one of the few teas whose history can be "tied" to a personal visit by Lu Yu — the greatest figure in world tea history. The inscription "枢...
- Name Breakdown
- ལེ་ཁྲང་དཀར་སྤུ་ཇ་ནི་འཛམ་གླིང་གི་ཇའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སུ་ཆེས་མཐོ་བའི་མི་སྣ་ལུའུ་ཡོས་ཀྱི་ངོས་ནས་ཕེབས་པའི་ཇ་ཉུང་ཤས་ཤིག་ཡིན། རྡོ་བྲག་སྟེང་གི་ “ཧྲོའུ་ཧྲི” ཡི་གེ་ནི་གཏམ་རྒྱུད་ཙམ་མིན་པར་དངོས་ད...
- Amino Acids
- 1.6% — below average (result of large-leaf cultivar and abundant sunshine). However, "heavy" fixation at 300°C compensates for this, softening astringency.
- Polyphenols
- 38.0% — one of the highest indicators among Chinese green teas. Free radical neutralization efficiency — 30% higher than ordinary green tea.
- Vitamins
- Vitamin C, carotenoids.
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