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Gongfu Brewing

Jīngyáng Fú Zhuān泾阳茯砖

Jīngyáng fú zhuān

Origin
China, Shaanxi Province (陕西, Shǎnxī), Xiányáng Prefecture (咸阳, Xiányá...
Tea type
Dark Tea
Water temperature
100 °C
Gongfu water temperature
100 °C
SKU · JINGYANG-FU-ZHUAN-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Shaanxi Province (陕西, Shǎnxī), Xiányáng Prefecture (咸阳, Xiányáng), Jīngyáng County (泾阳县, Jīngyáng Xiàn)
Tea type
Gongfu Brewing
SKU
JINGYANG-FU-ZHUAN-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 100°C, 6 g / 100 ml, 10s, 10 steeps
  • Western: 100°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Tea amount
5–8 g per 150–200 ml water (for flash steeps method). For boiling — 5 g per 200 ml.
Teaware
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Water temperature
100 °C
Gongfu water temperature
100 °C
Tea amount
6 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Dark
Soil
Brown forest soils (棕壤, zōngrǎng) with organic matter content over 1.0%, creating a favorable microbiological environment in production facilities.
Taste
Liquor Aroma
Rich, enveloping, with dominant mushroom tone, notes of dried fruits, nuts, and warm wood. Old tea reveals medicinal, "pharmaceutical" notes (药香, yào xiāng).
Liquor Color
Orange-red, transparent and bright (橙红透亮), resembling young amber. With increased aging acquires a deeper red-brown tone.
Spent Leaves
Yellow-brown, uniform, retaining resilience and elasticity. Residual traces of "golden flowers" may be visible on leaves.
Sensory Source Descriptor Dt Intensity
4
Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor Mn Intensity
1
Details
Cultivar
Jingyang Fu Zhuan is made not from local raw materials, but from imported dark raw tea (黑毛茶, hēi máo chá) from several origins:
Pluck Standard
Depends on target product class: for special grade (特级) — no less than 90% single buds; for first grade (一级) — no less than 80% "one bud + one leaf"; for second grade ...
Raw Material
Dark raw tea must undergo a complete cycle of primary processing (杀青 — shaqing, 揉捻 — rouniyan, 渥堆 — wodui, drying) before arriving in Jingyang, where secondary processing begins.
History
The history of Jingyang Fu Zhuan spans more than six centuries and is inextricably linked to the tea-horse trade (茶马贸易, chámǎ màoyì) — a crucial economic mechanis...
Name Breakdown
The tea's name consists of several semantic components:
Alkaloids
Caffeine, theobromine, theophylline. Caffeine content is moderate, as part of it binds during fermentation.
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