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Yuèyáng Huáng Chá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gongfu Brewing
Yuèyáng Huáng Chá岳阳黄茶
Yuèyáng huángchá
- Origin
- China, Húnán Province (湖南, Húnán), Yuèyáng Prefecture (岳阳, Yuèyáng)
- Tea type
- Yellow Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 78 °C
SKU · YUEYANG-HUANGCHA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Húnán Province (湖南, Húnán), Yuèyáng Prefecture (岳阳, Yuèyáng)
- Tea type
- Gongfu Brewing
- SKU
- YUEYANG-HUANGCHA-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 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio).
- Water temperature
- 80 °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 Appearance
- Depends on the product:
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Delicate, sweetish, with notes of cooked chestnuts (嫩栗香, nèn lì xiāng) in higher grades; "stewed" enzymatic aroma (酵香, jiào xiāng) — characteristic of a...
- Liquor Aroma
- Clean, sweet, with dominant "tender freshness" (嫩香, nèn xiāng). Jūnshān Yínzhēn (君山银针, Jūnshān Yínzhēn) additionally has subtle honey and floral notes. ...
- Liquor Color
- Apricot-yellow (杏黄, xìng huáng) — light, clear, with bright luster (明亮, míng liàng). In more oxidized samples (Huang Ye) — orange-yellow.
- Spent Leaves
- Tender yellow (嫩黄), uniform, resilient. Buds/leaves whole, arranged in neat "rosettes" (成朵, chéng duǒ). Uniformity — indicator of proper sorting and sealed yellow...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 3
Details
- Cultivar
- A wide spectrum of varieties is used, both old population groups (群体种, qúntǐ zhǒng — seed propagation) and modern clonal cultivars:
- Picking
- ལྕེ་སྒོང་གཅིག — ལོ་མ་གཉིས་ནས་གསུམ་དང་དེ་ལས་མང་བ།
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine — 2–4% of dry matter. Synergy with high L-theanine content provides mild, prolonged energy without sharp stimulation.
- Minerals
- Potassium, zinc, magnesium, selenium (elevated content — reflects geochemistry of lacustrine soils), fluorine.
- Polyphenols
- Moderate content — lower than in green tea due to partial oxidation during sealed yellowing. This ensures mildness: bitterness and astringency are significantly reduced. Water e...
- Vitamins
- Vitamin C (in significant quantity — mild heat treatment preserves it), B vitamins.
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