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Gaiwan

Songfeng Lü Chá松峰绿茶

Sōngfēng lǜchá

Origin
China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Chìbì City (赤壁市, Chìbì Shì, ancien...
Tea type
Pine Needle Green Tea
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
SKU · SONGFENG-LUCHA-CN
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Provenance and specifications

Origin
China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Chìbì City (赤壁市, Chìbì Shì, ancient name—Puqi, 蒲圻), part of Xiánníng Prefecture (咸宁市, Xiánníng Shì)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
SONGFENG-LUCHA-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
  • Western: 70°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
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Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
Pour 1/3 water, add tea, swirl for "aroma awakening" (摇香, yáo xiāng), fill to full volume. Steep 2–3 minutes.
Tea amount
3 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio).
Teaware
Glass tumbler (top-pouring method, 上投法) or white porcelain gaiwan (middle-pouring method, 中投法).
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Origin
Tea type
Green
Climate
Northern subtropical zone. Average annual temperature 16.8°C; precipitation 1,560 mm/year; cloudy-foggy days—significant percentage; diffused light—sufficient for stimulati...
Soil
Yellow-brown loams (黄棕壤), pH 4.5–6.5, enriched with zinc and selenium. Natural irrigation—mountain springs of Songfengshan.
Taste
Dry Leaf Appearance
Thin, even, twisted "pine needles" (针芽状, zhēnyá zhuàng), dense and uniform (紧细匀整). Color—emerald green, oily-lustrous (翠绿油润).
Dry Leaf Aroma
Chestnut (栗香, lì xiāng)—dominant note, high and sharp. Clean green (清香)—additional background. "Mature chestnut" (熟栗香)—result of triple final drying.
Liquor Aroma
Chestnut-green, high and stable. Upon cooling—sweetish "bread" notes.
Liquor Color
Transparent, clean and bright (清澈明亮).
Spent Leaves
Tender green, even, fresh and lively (嫩绿匀齐鲜活).
Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
4
Details
Pluck Standard
Premium grade—single buds (≥90%). First grade—bud + one half-opened leaf (≥80%). Second grade—bud + two leaves.
Raw Material
Tender, whole shoots conforming to the "Nine Prohibitions" standard.
History
སུང་ཧྥེང་ཇའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ནི་ལྷུག་པོའི་ལྗང་ཇ་རིགས་སུ་གྲུབ་པའི་སྐྱེ་རབས་ཡིན། ཁྲིས་པེའི་ས་ཁུལ་གྱི་ཇའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་ལོ་ངོ་ ༢༠༠༠ ལྷག་ཙམ་ཡོད། ཐང་རྒྱལ་རབས་སུ་ས་ཆ་འདིར “ཇ་ཁྱིམ” (园户, yuá...
Alkaloids
Caffeine—moderate, providing tonic effect.
Amino Acids
Sufficient level to ensure freshness. L-theanine dominates.
Minerals
Zinc and selenium—geochemical markers of the Mufushan Range. Potassium, manganese, fluorine.
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