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Gaiwan

Mòlì Lǒng Zhú茉莉龙珠

mòlì lóngzhū

Origin
China, Fújiàn Province (福建, Fújiàn), Fúzhōu city (福州, Fúzhōu) — the h...
Tea type
Green Tea
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
SKU · MOLI-LONGZHU-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Fújiàn Province (福建, Fújiàn), Fúzhōu city (福州, Fúzhōu) — the historical birthplace of jasmine teas and the recognized center of the yinzhi industry in China
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
MOLI-LONGZHU-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
  • Western: 70°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
སྤྱི་རྒྱ་གྲམ་༣–༥གྱི་མུ་ཏིག་ཆུ་གྲང་མོ་སྤྱི་རྒྱ་༥༠༠ནང་བླུགས་ཏེ། འཁྱགས་སྒམ་ནང་ཆུ་ཚོད་༦–༨བཞག ། འབྲས་བུ་ནི་ཕྲ་ཞིང་མངར་བའི། དྲོ་གྲང་གི་འཐུང་བྱེད་ཤིག་ཡིན་ལ། དབྱར་ཁའི་དྲོད་ཚད་ལ་ཧ་ཅང་འོས།
Tea amount
3–5 g (5–8 pearls) per 150–200 ml water. For gongfu method — 5–7 g per 100–120 ml gaiwan.
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Green
Alt Names
Fújiàn Zhū (福建珠, Fújiàn Zhū), Mòlì Bái Lóngzhū (茉莉白龙珠, Mòlì Bái Lóngzhū — "White Dragon Pearl", variant mad...
Taste
Liquor Color
Light yellow with golden tint, transparent, clear, with pronounced brightness. With each scenting cycle, the liquor acquires a slightly deeper yellow tone (consequence of polyph...
Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
4
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor Li Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor Mw Intensity
2
Details
Pluck Standard
One bud and one-two upper leaves (一芽一叶 or 一芽二叶). For premium batches — single buds (单芽, dān yá).
Raw Material
Exceptionally high. Tea buds — whole, uniform, without mechanical damage. Jasmine buds — snow-white, firm, without signs of wilting or damage.
Name Breakdown
Each character carries semantic meaning:
Alkaloids
Caffeine — 2–4% dry weight (~30–50 mg per 150 ml cup). Theobromine and theophylline — in trace amounts.
Amino Acids
L-theanine — specific tea amino acid, content 1–2% dry weight. A total of up to 26 types of amino acids have been identified. Content is somewhat higher than in regular green te...
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, fluorine, zinc, manganese, phosphorus, selenium.
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