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Liú Ān Guà Piān
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Liú Ān Guà Piān六安瓜片
Liù'ān guāpiàn
- Origin
- China, Ānhuī Province (安徽省), Lu'an Prefecture (六安市, Liù'ān Shì), Dàbi...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 100 °C
SKU · LIU-AN-GUAPIAN-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Ānhuī Province (安徽省), Lu'an Prefecture (六安市, Liù'ān Shì), Dàbié Mountains (大别山, Dàbié Shān)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- LIU-AN-GUAPIAN-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 100°C, 6 g / 100 ml, 10s, 8 steeps
- Western: 100°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- ཁེ་བཞི་ནས་ལྔ། ཀེ་ཝན་ཧའོ་ཧྲེང་༡༠༠–༡༢༠ དྲོད་ཚད་ ༧༠–༨༠°C ། དང་པོའི་སྦྱར་བ — སྐར་མ་ ༦༠ ། དེ་ནས — སྐར་མ་ ༤༥–༦༠ ། ཐེངས་བཞི་དྲུག་བླུགས།
- Tea amount
- 3–5 g per 150–200 ml.
- Teaware
- Glass tumbler (玻璃杯) — classic method: allows observing how flat "seeds" slowly sink to the bottom, opening. Porcelain gaiwan — for more controlled extraction. Small-vo...
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 100 °C
- Tea amount
- 6 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Alt Names
- Guā Piàn (瓜片) — abbreviation; Piàn Chá (片茶, "leaf tea"); Lu'an Piàn (六安片).
- Climate
- Average annual temperature ~15.3°C. Precipitation — 1,200–1,400 mm. Humidity — 80%+. Mountain gorges create a microclimate with abundant mists, short daylight hours and sig...
- Soil
- Yellow-brown mountain soils (黄棕壤), slightly acidic (pH ~6.5), loose, deep, rich in organic matter and minerals.
Taste
- Liquor Aroma
- "Fresh and high" (清香高爽, qīngxiāng gāoshuǎng). Chestnut background, floral and grassy notes. Aroma persistent — maintained throughout 3–5 infusions.
- Liquor Color
- Clear, bright green with yellowish tint (清澈明亮). "Living" color — like a mountain stream.
- Spent Leaves
- Whole, flat, resilient leaf blades — without buds, without stems, without fragments. Uniform yellow-green color. Precisely the spent leaves of Gua Pian are the best way to evalu...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 1
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 1
- Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
- 3
Details
- Cultivar
- Local populations of *Camellia sinensis* var. *sinensis*, growing in the Dabie Mountains. For the inner mountain region (内山), indigenous varieties with increased amino acid cont...
- Name Breakdown
- "Liu An" (六安) — name of the prefecture (since the Han era); "Gua Pian" (瓜片) — "melon/gourd seed-blades" — description of the leaf shape.
- Amino Acids
- L-theanine — medium-high content. Mountain terroir (800+ m a.s.l., mists, temperature variations) promotes amino acid accumulation.
- Minerals
- Enriched profile — granite and slate soils of Qi Shan. Potassium, manganese, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus.
- Polyphenols
- High catechin content, especially EGCG. Mature leaves (not buds!) contain more polyphenols than tender bud shoots — making Gua Pian one of the most "antioxidant" green...
- Vitamins
- C (high — green tea), B₁, B₂, E, K.
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