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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
Studio preview
Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
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Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn
Gaiwan
Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn白毫银针
báiháo yínzhēn
- Origin
- China, Fújiàn Province (福建, Fújiàn)
- Tea type
- White Tea
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Western water temperature
- 65 °C
SKU · BAIHAO-YINZHEN-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Fújiàn Province (福建, Fújiàn)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- BAIHAO-YINZHEN-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 4 steeps
- Western: 65°C, 2 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- Full vessel warming → tea addition → quick rinse (5 sec) → first infusion 15–25 sec → 6–10 infusions. Bud material releases liquor quickly — control timing.
- Teaware
- Porcelain gaiwan, dense ceramics. If tea was stored long in tight packaging — let it "breathe" 10–20 minutes before brewing.
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
- Tea-to-water ratio
- 10 s
Origin
- Tea type
- White
- Climate
- Subtropical monsoon. Average annual temperature in Fuding ~18.5 °C, precipitation ~1660 mm/year. Frequent fogs and diffused light slow bud growth and stimulate amino acid a...
Taste
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Very delicate — white flowers (peony, lily of the valley), fresh hay, light honey, sometimes melon and white peach, delicate creamy nuances.
- Liquor Aroma
- Exquisite, with pure floral notes, hints of honey and fresh greenery.
- Liquor Color
- Golden (3–5 years), amber (5–7 years), rich amber to copper (7+ years). Clear.
- Spent Leaves
- Whole elastic buds, light yellow to pale green, with silvery down.
- Taste
- More rounded, dense and "bodied." Astringency — soft, "velvety." Sweetness is preserved but changes character: instead of floral freshness — honey depth. Aft...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 2
Details
- Cultivar
- Exclusively large-bud varieties of *Camellia sinensis* var. *sinensis*, propagated vegetatively:
- History
- Bái Háo Yìn Zhèn has documented history dating back to the early Qīng dynasty (清, Qīng):
- Name Breakdown
- — ཧྥུ་ཏིང་གི་ཇ་བཟོ་མཁན་དག་གིས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་ཇ་ཤིང་། (菜茶, càichá, "ཞིང་པའི་ཇ") ནས་ཐོན་པའི་ལྗང་ཤུན་གྱིས་སྔོན་དཔེའི་དངུལ་གྱི་ཁབ་བཟོས།
- Amino Acids
- Exceptionally high content — 3–5% (up to 7% in the best batches). L-theanine (茶氨酸) dominates, responsible for sweetness, umami and relaxing effect. With aging, content decreases...
- Minerals
- Potassium, fluorine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, manganese.
- Vitamins
- C, B₁, B₂, E, PP, folic acid. Minimal heat treatment ensures better preservation of thermolabile vitamins. Over years, vitamin C content decreases.
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