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Zīxī Bái Chá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Zīxī Bái Chá资溪白茶
Zīxī báichá
- Origin
- China, Jiāngxī Province (江西省, Jiāngxī Shěng), Fǔzhōu Prefecture (抚州市,...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 85 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
SKU · ZIXI-BAICHA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Jiāngxī Province (江西省, Jiāngxī Shěng), Fǔzhōu Prefecture (抚州市, Fǔzhōu Shì), Zīxī County (资溪县, Zīxī Xiàn)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- ZIXI-BAICHA-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 water (1:50 ratio).
- Teaware
- Glass tumbler — ideal option for observing the unfolding of snow-white shoots and jade liquor color. Porcelain gaiwan — universal alternative.
- Water temperature
- 85 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Soil
- Sandy red soils (砂性红壤, shāxìng hóng rǎng), pH 4.5–5.6, with organic matter content ≥ 1.5%, good air and water permeability. Parent rocks — acidic mountain deposits of ...
Taste
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Clean, fresh aroma (清香, qīngxiāng) — main note; delicate "downy" aroma with corn kernel undertone (毫香, háoxiāng); in the best "pre-Qingming" samples — t...
- Liquor Aroma
- Fresh, clean, with light floral note and characteristic "downy" overtone. Aroma is gentle, not aggressive, unfolds gradually.
- Liquor Color
- Tender goose-yellow (鹅黄, éhuáng), clean, transparent, with pronounced luster — one of the lightest infusions among green teas.
- Spent Leaves
- Whitish leaves with bright green veins (叶白脉翠) — characteristic "signature" feature; tender, uniform, gathered in "bouquets."
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 4
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 2
Details
- Picking
- Spring picking — the only period for obtaining quality Bai Cha (only in the albino phase). Picking begins in mid-March and ends by mid-April. Highest quality — tea picked before...
- Pluck Standard
- For supreme grade — single bud or bud with one beginning-to-unfurl leaf. For first grade — bud with one to two beginning-to-unfurl leaves. Whiteness and bud size are key quality...
- Raw Material
- Tender, uniform shoots with maximum degree of whiteness. Raw material from the period after warming (when the leaf turns green) produces tea of significantly lower quality.
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine, theobromine, theophylline — in moderate amounts.
- Minerals
- Potassium, manganese, zinc, fluorine — in standard amounts for green tea.
- Polyphenols
- Moderate content — lower than standard green teas, explaining the virtually complete absence of bitterness and astringency. The "amino acids/polyphenols" ratio is stro...
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