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Jin Xuan (#12)

Jīn Xuān Gāoshān Hóng Chá金萱高山红茶

jīn xuān gāoshān hóngchá

Origin
Táiwān (台灣, Táiwān)
Tea type
Jin Xuan (#12)
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
SKU · JIN-XUAN-GAOSHAN-HONGCHA-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
Táiwān (台灣, Táiwān)
Tea type
Jin Xuan (#12)
SKU
JIN-XUAN-GAOSHAN-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
ཆུ་གྲངས་མོའི་ ༦༠༠ མི་ལིར་ཇ་གྲམ་ ༦ བླུགས། བསིལ་ཁང་དུ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༦–༨ བཞག གྲང་མོའི་སྦངས་ཐབས་ཀྱིས་རང་བྱུང་གི་མངར་བར་དམིགས་འཛུགས་བྱེད་པ་དང་ཁུ་བརྒྱ་ཉུང་དུ་གཏོང་།
Tea amount
4–5 g per 150 ml water (gongfu method); 3 g per 200 ml (European method).
Teaware
Porcelain gàiwǎn (蓋碗, gàiwǎn) — preferred option, allowing all aroma nuances to unfold. Yíxīng clay teapot (紫砂壺, zǐshā hú) or porcelain teapot also suitable.
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Origin
Tea type
Red
Taste
Liquor Aroma
Bright, enveloping, with predominance of honey-fruity complex — ripe fruits, caramel, malt. Creamy tones are present in the background, especially pronounced when the liquor coo...
Liquor Color
From amber-orange to rich red-amber, bright, transparent, with characteristic deep luster. Under good lighting demonstrates a golden "halo" around the cup edge.
Spent Leaves
Whole, elastic, evenly opened leaves of reddish-brown color with bronze tint. Buds are golden-orange. Uniformity and leaf integrity are indicators of quality processing.
Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
1
Sensory Source Descriptor Ch Intensity
1
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
1
Details
Pluck Standard
Hand-picking. For premium red tea, bud and two upper leaves are used (一芽二葉, yī yá èr yè). For premium batches, the "bud + one leaf" standard is applied.
Raw Material
Only undamaged, healthy shoots harvested in dry weather are used. High-altitude origin of raw material is a key requirement determining tea quality and price category.
Alkaloids
Caffeine — about 2.5–3.5% dry mass (approximately 40–60 mg per 200 ml cup). Theobromine and theophylline are present in smaller quantities.
Essential Oils
More than 300 volatile aromatic compounds, including linalool, geraniol, methyl salicylate, and cis-jasmone. The specific "creamy" aroma of Jin Xuan is associated with...
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, manganese, fluorine, zinc, iron. High-mountain soils enrich tea with mineral elements.
Vitamins
B₁, B₂, B₆, C (in limited quantity due to heat treatment), E, K.
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