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Hèshān Hóng Chá
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Hèshān Hóng Chá鹤山红茶
Hèshān Hóngchá
- Origin
- China, Guǎngdōng Province (廣東省), Hèshān City (鶴山市, part of Jiangmen P...
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- Water temperature
- 90 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
SKU · HESHAN-HONGCHA-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Guǎngdōng Province (廣東省), Hèshān City (鶴山市, part of Jiangmen Prefecture / 江門市)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- HESHAN-HONGCHA-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 93°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 4 steeps
- Western: 88°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- ཧོ་ཧྲན་དམར་འཇའ་ནི་«ཡོ་རོབ་ཀྱི» དབྱིབས་སུའང་བཟང་པོ་ཡིན་ཏེ། སྐར་མ་ 3 ཀྱིས་ཕོར་པ་ཆེན་པོར་སྐར་མ་ 3–5 བཞག་ན་ལེགས། ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ནས་ལྷོ་ཤར་ཨེ་ཤ་ཡའི་ཧྭ་ཆོ་དག་གིས་འདི་ལྟར་བ...
- Tea amount
- 4–5 g per 100–120 ml (gongfu); 3 g per 200–250 ml (steeping).
- Teaware
- Porcelain gaiwan (white porcelain reveals color nuances). Glass vessels — for visual enjoyment of the "golden ring." Yixing teapot — for daily brewing.
- Water temperature
- 90 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Red
- Alt Names
- Hèshān hóngchá (鶴山紅茶); "Shuangshi" hongcha (雙石紅茶 — named after the famous tea factory in Shuanghe); "Gulao yin zhen" (古勞銀針 — silver needles fr...
- Climate
- Subtropical monsoon. Average annual temperature ~22.6°C. Precipitation — 1,700–1,900 mm/year. Humidity 78–82%. Mild winters, long frost-free period. Frequent mountain mists...
- Soil
- Predominantly red and yellow lateritic, acidic (pH 4.0–6.0), well-drained, with moderate organic content. Underlying rocks — granite and sandstone.
- Topography
- Heshan is hilly terrain with numerous low elevations. Moderately steep, well-drained slopes.
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Thin, tightly twisted, even tea particles (條索緊密細長), dark brown to black, with characteristic oily luster (色澤烏潤). Higher grades have golden tips.
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Rich, sweet. Honey, malty notes, dried fruit undertones. Characteristic "Guangdong" warmth of aroma.
- Liquor Aroma
- Persistent, enveloping. Honey, caramel, light floral notes. When cooling — "bread" undertone.
- Liquor Color
- Red-ruby to golden-red (紅潤), transparent. At the cup's edge — "golden ring" (金圈) in the best lots.
- Spent Leaves
- Even, elastic, red-brown leaves. Uniformity — indicator of proper processing.
- Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
- 3
Details
- Picking
- Spring (March–April) — highest grade; summer and autumn — standard. Early spring harvest (明前/雨前) is most valued.
- Pluck Standard
- One bud with one-two leaves for premium lots; one bud with two-three leaves for standard.
- Polyphenols
- 12.4–15.3% — moderate content ensuring taste smoothness.
- Early harvest months
- 3, 4
- Late harvest months
- 5, 6
- Peak harvest months
- 4, 5
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