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Yángxiàn Xuě Yá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Yángxiàn Xuě Yá阳羡雪芽
Yángxiàn Xuěyá
- Origin
- China, Jiāngsū Province (江苏省, Jiāngsū shěng), Yíxīng City (宜兴市, Yíxīn...
- Tea type
- Snow Bud Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
SKU · YANGXIAN-XUE-YA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Jiāngsū Province (江苏省, Jiāngsū shěng), Yíxīng City (宜兴市, Yíxīng shì)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- YANGXIAN-XUE-YA-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
- Tea amount
- 3 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio). For gaiwan: 5 g per 100–120 ml.
- Teaware
- Glass tumbler (ideal for observing the opening of "snow buds"). Porcelain gàiwǎn (盖碗). Yíxīng clay teapot from zǐshā (紫砂壶) — historically and aesthetically t...
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Soil
- Deep red-yellow lateritic soils (红黄壤, hónghuáng rǎng), fertile layer thickness ≥ 1 m. pH 4.5–6.5, organic matter content ≥ 3%. Forest coverage of the territory — 74%.
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Needle-like form (针芽状, zhēnyá zhuàng) — shoots straight, thin, tightly twisted (紧直匀细). Color — rich emerald green with clearly visible silvery-white down (翠绿显毫). Unifo...
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Clean, delicate, with a hint of "young" freshness (清香, qīngxiāng). For expensive pickings before Qingming, characteristic so-called "tender aroma" (嫩香, n...
- Liquor Aroma
- Elegant and clean (清雅, qīngyǎ), medium intensity, without harshness. Tonality — fresh greenery with light chestnut and floral notes. Aroma is persistent.
- Liquor Color
- Tender green, transparent and bright (嫩绿清澈明亮).
- Spent Leaves
- Tender, even, whole "bouquets" of shoots (嫩匀成朵), bright green color with living luster (绿润鲜活).
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 3
Details
- Pluck Standard
- To produce 500 g of supreme grade tea requires 40,000–50,000 buds.
- Raw Material
- Whole, freshly picked shoots without mechanical damage, with abundant white down, uniform in size.
- History
- The history of tea in Yixing (ancient name — Yangxian, 阳羡; later Yixing, 义兴) is one of the most documented in world tea culture, spanning more than two thousand years.
- Essential Oils
- Chestnut aroma forms during roasting; delicate floral notes — linalool and geraniol.
- Minerals
- Fluorine (15 mg/100 g — high content, promoting tooth protection), potassium, manganese, zinc, selenium.
- Polyphenols
- Content about 14.7% — relatively low for green tea, explaining the mildness, lightness and minimal bitterness. Main catechins: EGCG, ECG, EGC.
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