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Xìnyáng Hóng
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Xìnyáng Hóng信阳红
Xìnyáng hóng
- Origin
- China, Hénán Province (河南, Hénán), Xinyang Prefecture-level City (信阳市...
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- Water temperature
- 88 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
SKU · XINYANG-HONG-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Hénán Province (河南, Hénán), Xinyang Prefecture-level City (信阳市, Xìnyáng shì)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- XINYANG-HONG-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 100–120 ml (gongfu method); 3 g per 200 ml (Western method).
- Teaware
- White porcelain gàiwǎn (白瓷盖碗) — optimal for evaluating aroma and color; transparent glass teapot — for visual enjoyment; porcelain teapot for daily brewing.
- Water temperature
- 88 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
Origin
- Tea type
- Red
- Soil
- Yellow-brown mountain-forest soils, well-drained, with high organic content; acidity pH 4.5–6.0.
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Thin, slender "needles" — tight and fine (条索紧细), resembling green Maojian in elegance; color — black-chestnut with oily luster (乌棕色, wūzōng sè); golden tips (金毫) ...
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Sweet, with distinct notes of chestnut, honey, and light florality; more "restrained" and "northern" in character than southern red teas.
- Liquor Color
- Red-amber, transparent and bright; at the cup wall — clear "golden ring" (金圈).
- Spent Leaves
- Tender, even, bright red (嫩匀红亮); in highest grades — whole, elegant buds and leaves.
- Taste
- Dense, round, with pronounced natural sweetness and "clean" — not rough — astringency (醇厚甘爽). Liquor body — "silky," with soft oiliness. Aftertaste — long, w...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
- 3
Details
- Pluck Standard
- གསར་པ། ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པ། རྨ་སྐྱོན་མེད་པ། དམིགས་བསལ་གྱིས་ཟས་སྲོག་ཆགས་སམ་པོ་ལི་ཧྥེ་ནོལ་གྱི་ཚད་འཛིན་ལ་དོ་སྣང་བྱེད་དགོས། དབྱར་དང་སྟོན་གྱི་རྒྱུ་ཆར་དཔྱིད་དུས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་ལས་དེའི་ཚད་མཐོ་...
- Name Breakdown
- 信阳 (Xìnyáng) — the city name, dating back to the Suì era (隋, 589–618); 红 (hóng) — "red," indicating the tea type. Simple, memorable, and contrastin...
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine ~2.5–3.5% dry mass; theobromine, theophylline.
- Minerals
- Potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, fluorine, selenium.
- Vitamins
- B₁, B₂, P (rutin); trace amounts of C (partially destroyed during oxidation).
- Early harvest months
- 3, 4
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