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Yuèyáng Huáng Yá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Yuèyáng Huáng Yá岳阳黄芽
Yuèyáng huáng yá
- Origin
- China, Húnán Province (湖南, Húnán), Yuèyáng Prefecture (岳阳, Yuèyáng), ...
- Tea type
- Yellow Tea
- Water temperature
- 75 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 78 °C
SKU · YUEYANG-HUANG-YA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Húnán Province (湖南, Húnán), Yuèyáng Prefecture (岳阳, Yuèyáng), Jūnshān District (君山区, Jūnshān Qū)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- YUEYANG-HUANG-YA-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 78°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 4 steeps
- Western: 72°C, 2 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Tea amount
- 3–5 g per 150–200 ml water.
- Water temperature
- 75 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 78 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
- Tea-to-water ratio
- 10 s
Origin
- Tea type
- Yellow tea
Taste
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Delicate, with pronounced note of "nenlixiang" (嫩栗香) — young chestnut aroma. Sweetish cereal undertones are present.
- Liquor Color
- Xinhuang (杏黄) — "apricot-yellow," transparent, with amber brilliance, resembling liquid honey in transparency. Noticeably brighter and cleaner than standard Yueyang ye...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 5
- Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor Li Intensity
- 3
Details
- Picking
- Strictly before the Qīngmíng festival (清明, Qīngmíng, ~April 5) or at the very beginning of the Qingming season, when buds are most tender and saturated with amino acid...
- Pluck Standard
- Single buds (单芽, dān yá) or bud with one barely opened leaf (一芽一叶初展, yī yá yī yè chū zhǎn). Raw material must be resilient, undamaged, harvested in dry weather.
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine — approximately 2.5–3.5% of dry matter. In synergy with L-theanine provides calm, prolonged alertness without sharp peaks.
- Minerals
- Potassium, magnesium, zinc, fluorine. Feature — elevated selenium content (up to 0.85 mg/kg in raw material), due to alluvial soils of the Dongting delta. Selenium is a microele...
- Vitamins
- Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), B-group vitamins (B₁, B₂), vitamin E. Gentle processing during menhuang allows better preservation of the vitamin profile than high-temperature pan-fi...
- Early harvest months
- 3
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