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Gaiwan

Zǐyáng Lú Chá紫阳绿茶

Zǐyáng lǜchá

Origin
China, Shaanxi Province (陕西, Shǎnxī), Ānkāng City (安康市, Ānkāng Shì), ...
Tea type
Green Tea
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
SKU · ZIYANG-LUCHA-CN
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Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Shaanxi Province (陕西, Shǎnxī), Ānkāng City (安康市, Ānkāng Shì), Zǐyáng County (紫阳县, Zǐyáng Xiàn)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
ZIYANG-LUCHA-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
  • Western: 70°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
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Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
ཆུ་ཚོད་ >༨༥°C བེད་སྤྱོད་མི་བྱེད་འཚལ། — དེས་ཨ་མེ་ནོ་སྐྱུར་རྫས་གཤེད་པ་དང་ཁ་བ་སྒྲིམ། གསར་བསྡུས་ཀྱི་ཇ་ཉོས་པ་ནི་བདུན་ཕྲག་ ༡–༢ བར་བཞག་ནས་“མེའི་དྲི” འཁྲོད་དུ་གཏོང་དགོས། ཉིན་རེའ...
Tea amount
3 g per 150 ml water (1:50 ratio). For supreme grade — top-down method (上投法, water first, then tea).
Teaware
Glass tumbler (for observing silver needles "dance") or white porcelain gaiwan.
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Origin
Tea type
Green
Climate
Subtropical monsoon. Average annual temperature — 15.1°C, annual precipitation — 1,127.8 mm. Average annual number of foggy days — >180. Daily temperature variations — &...
Taste
Dry Leaf Appearance
Plump, sturdy shoots (肥嫩壮实). Color — bright emerald green (色泽翠绿). Forms: needle-shaped (银针), eyebrow-shaped (毛尖, 翠峰), twisted (炒青). Down — abundant in supreme grades.
Dry Leaf Aroma
Chestnut (栗香, lì xiāng) — primary and most pronounced note. Pure green freshness (清香). In supreme grades — delicate aroma of young buds (嫩香).
Liquor Aroma
Chestnut, persistent and deep.
Liquor Color
Tender green, bright and clear (嫩绿明亮).
Spent Leaves
Tender, uniform shoots, gathered in "buds" (嫩匀成朵, for supreme class); yellow-green (for mass varieties).
Taste
Formula "浓而不涩,醇厚回甜" — "concentrated but not astringent, mellow and sweet". Fresh (鲜爽) — amino acid note (up to 5.69%). Mellow (醇厚). Returning sweetness — per...
Details
Pluck Standard
Three grades:
History
Ziyang Lu Cha is one of China's most ancient teas with documented history exceeding 3,000 years.
Alkaloids
Caffeine — moderate content.
Amino Acids
3.08–5.69% — wide range, depending on variety and harvest time. Supreme grade reaches record 5.69%.
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, selenium, phosphorus.
Polyphenols
30.35% — significantly above average. Provides powerful antioxidant potential.
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