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Gongfu Brewing

Sānxiá Lóng Jǐng三峡龙井

Sānxiá lóng jǐng

Origin
China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Yíchāng City (宜昌市, Yíchāng Shì)
Tea type
Green Tea
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
80 °C
SKU · SANXIA-LONG-JING-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Yíchāng City (宜昌市, Yíchāng Shì)
Tea type
Gongfu Brewing
SKU
SANXIA-LONG-JING-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 80°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
  • Western: 75°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
ཐུམ་སྒྲོམ་ཁ་ཕྱེ་རྗེས་ཁ་རྒྱག་སྟེ་མཁོལ་ཁང་ནང་སྲུང་དགོས་ཤིང་ཟླ་བ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ནང་དུ་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་དགོས། མཚན་མོ་བཞག་པའི་ཇ་དེ་མི་འཐུང་།
Tea amount
3 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio).
Teaware
Glass cup (玻璃杯) — for observing the opening of flat "blades."
Water temperature
80 °C
Gongfu water temperature
80 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Origin
Tea type
Green
Soil
Yellow-brown loams (黄棕壤, huáng zōng rǎng), pH 5.0–6.0, organic matter >1.5%. Soils are enriched with selenium (Se 0.15–0.3 μg/g) and zinc — a consequence of the geochemi...
Taste
Dry Leaf Appearance
Flat, straight "sword blades" (扁平挺直, biǎnpíng tǐngzhí), emerald-green with noticeable silvery down (翠绿显毫). Shape is even, uniform.
Dry Leaf Aroma
Tender chestnut (嫩栗香, nèn lì xiāng) — dominant note; clean green (清香, qīng xiāng) — spring accent. Chestnut character is more pronounced than in Xi Hu Long Jing — resu...
Liquor Aroma
Chestnut-green, high, persistent. With cooling, creamy-sweet nuances appear.
Liquor Color
Tender green, clear and bright (嫩绿清澈明亮).
Spent Leaves
Tender green, buds open as "flowers" (嫩绿成朵), even, lively and uniform (匀齐鲜活).
Taste
Fresh (鲜爽, xiān shuǎng) thanks to high amino acid content. Sweet (甘, gān) — with pronounced returning aftertaste. Body — medium-dense, harmonious (醇, chún), without excessi...
Details
Picking
Spring — from late February to April. Most valuable — "mingqian" (明前, míngqián, before Qingming festival), then — "yuqian" (雨前, yǔqián, before...
Pluck Standard
Supreme grade (特级) — single buds or bud with one half-opened leaflet (一芽一叶初展); content of pure buds ≥85%, length ≤2.5 cm. First grade — bud with one opened leaflet (一芽一叶开展), ≥80...
Raw Material
Tender young shoots without mechanical damage and traces of pests. Raw material is processed on the day of harvest.
Alkaloids
Caffeine in the standard range for green tea; in combination with L-theanine gives the effect of "calm concentration."
Amino Acids
≥2.8% (spring tea); in Dengcun on old trees — up to 5.76% (data from China's Ministry of Agriculture). L-theanine — main component responsible for freshness and gentle invig...
Minerals
Selenium — 0.15–0.3 μg/g (natural geochemical marker); zinc, potassium, manganese, fluorine (the latter — elevated content, effective for caries prevention).
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