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Yín Sī Lú Chá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Yín Sī Lú Chá银丝绿茶
yín sī lǜ chá
- Origin
- "Yin Si" (银丝, "silver threads") is primarily a description of form an...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 70 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
SKU · YIN-SI-LU-CHA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- "Yin Si" (银丝, "silver threads") is primarily a description of form and raw material type, not a strictly geographically bound name
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- YIN-SI-LU-CHA-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
- 3–5 grams per 150–200 ml water.
- Water temperature
- 70 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
- Tea-to-water ratio
- 10 s
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Soil
- Typical red-yellow lateritic soils, rich in organic matter, with good drainage. In Anhui — characteristic mountain granitic soils; in Sichuan — yellow clay soils (黄壤, huáng...
Taste
- Liquor Aroma
- Bright, clean, with predominance of fresh grassy and floral notes. Top notes — young grass, cucumber freshness; middle — white flowers (jasmine, lily of the valley); base — ligh...
- Liquor Color
- Pale green with light yellowish tint, crystal clear, with bright luster. Liquor turbidity is unacceptable and indicates low quality.
- Spent Leaves
- Tender, whole, resilient buds, completely preserving form and silvery down, bright green color. Uniformity and integrity of spent leaves — key indicator of quality and authentic...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
- 2
Details
- Cultivar
- For Yin Si production, various varieties of *Camellia sinensis* var. *sinensis* may be used, selected by criteria of abundant down on buds and tenderness of young shoots. Among ...
- Pluck Standard
- Exclusively tender, unopened buds (tips, 芽, yá) or bud with one barely unfolded upper leaf (一芽一叶初展, yī yá yī yè chūzhǎn). "Buds only" standard (单芽, dān ...
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine — 2.0–3.0% of dry mass (about 15–25 mg per 150 ml cup). Caffeine content in bud tea is usually moderate; combined with high L-theanine level provides gentle tonic effec...
- Essential Oils
- Aromatic profile includes cis-3-hexenol (fresh "green" note), linalool, geraniol, nerolidol and series of aldehydes forming floral-grassy bouquet.
- Minerals
- Potassium (K) — main mineral, up to 1.5–2.0% of dry mass. Fluorine (F), magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn), phosphorus (P).
- Polyphenols
- Total content — 16–22% of dry mass, somewhat lower than in green teas from mature leaves. Main components: EGCG, EGC, ECG, EC. Precisely moderate catechin content ensures absenc...
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