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Gaiwan

Zhú Yè Qīng竹叶青

zhú yè qīng

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川, Sìchuān), Leshan Prefecture-level City (...
Tea type
Green Tea
Water temperature
75 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
SKU · ZHU-YE-QING-CN
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Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川, Sìchuān), Leshan Prefecture-level City (乐山, Lèshān), Éméishān City (峨眉山市, Éméishān shì)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
ZHU-YE-QING-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
ཀྲུ་ཡེ་ཆིང་ལ་ཁྲུས་གཏོང་བའི་རིམ་པ་མི་དགོས། ཕོག་སྦུན་ཕྲ་མོ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཆུ་དང་ཐུག་མ་ཐག་དྲི་གཏོང་བས། ཐོག་མའི་ཁུ་བ་བཤོས་ན་འཕྲོ་གཏོང་ཆེ།
Tea amount
3–5 g per 150–200 ml water.
Water temperature
75 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Green
Taste
Dry Leaf Aroma
Clean, fresh, with pronounced notes of young greenery and light chestnut undertone. In the highest grades, a delicate floral note reminiscent of orchid appears.
Liquor Aroma
Gentle, high, and clean. Fresh herbal and floral notes dominate with a soft chestnut background. The aroma is persistent, unfolding gradually, intensifying as the cup cools.
Liquor Color
Bright green or yellow-green, transparent, clean, with a light emerald tint. In the highest grades—distinctly "sparkling" and bright.
Spent Leaves
Tender, whole, resilient leaves and buds of bright green color. Uniform, well-opened, retaining shape.
Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
2
Details
Picking
Harvesting is conducted in early spring, strictly before the Qīngmíng festival (清明, Qīngmíng)—approximately until April 4–5. The entire volume of annual raw material m...
Pluck Standard
For the highest grades, exclusively single buds (单芽, dān yá) or one bud with a barely opened first leaf (一芽一叶初展, yī yá yī yè chū zhǎn) are harvested. For 500 g of...
Raw Material
Raw material must be uniform in size, undamaged, and fresh. Harvesting is conducted only in dry weather. Buds with mechanical damage, insect traces, and uneven color are rejected.
Alkaloids
Caffeine (咖啡碱, kāfēi jiǎn)—moderate content, typical for spring green teas (approximately 25–35 mg/g dry leaf). Theobromine and theophylline are also present in trace amounts.
Essential Oils
Represented by numerous volatile compounds responsible for floral-chestnut aromatics. High-altitude origin and significant diurnal temperature variations promote accumulation of...
Minerals
Fluorine, potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, selenium. The mountain yellow soils of Emeishan enrich the tea with microelements.
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