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Gaiwan

Xìnyáng Hóng信阳红

Xìnyáng hóng

Origin
China, Hénán Province (河南, Hénán), Xinyang Prefecture-level City (信阳市...
Tea type
Gaiwan
Water temperature
88 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
SKU · XINYANG-HONG-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Hénán Province (河南, Hénán), Xinyang Prefecture-level City (信阳市, Xìnyáng shì)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
XINYANG-HONG-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
Tea amount
4–5 g per 100–120 ml (gongfu method); 3 g per 200 ml (Western method).
Teaware
White porcelain gàiwǎn (白瓷盖碗) — optimal for evaluating aroma and color; transparent glass teapot — for visual enjoyment; porcelain teapot for daily brewing.
Water temperature
88 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Red
Soil
Yellow-brown mountain-forest soils, well-drained, with high organic content; acidity pH 4.5–6.0.
Taste
Dry Leaf Appearance
Thin, slender "needles" — tight and fine (条索紧细), resembling green Maojian in elegance; color — black-chestnut with oily luster (乌棕色, wūzōng sè); golden tips (金毫) ...
Dry Leaf Aroma
Sweet, with distinct notes of chestnut, honey, and light florality; more "restrained" and "northern" in character than southern red teas.
Liquor Color
Red-amber, transparent and bright; at the cup wall — clear "golden ring" (金圈).
Spent Leaves
Tender, even, bright red (嫩匀红亮); in highest grades — whole, elegant buds and leaves.
Taste
Dense, round, with pronounced natural sweetness and "clean" — not rough — astringency (醇厚甘爽). Liquor body — "silky," with soft oiliness. Aftertaste — long, w...
Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
3
Details
Pluck Standard
གསར་པ། ཡོངས་སུ་རྫོགས་པ། རྨ་སྐྱོན་མེད་པ། དམིགས་བསལ་གྱིས་ཟས་སྲོག་ཆགས་སམ་པོ་ལི་ཧྥེ་ནོལ་གྱི་ཚད་འཛིན་ལ་དོ་སྣང་བྱེད་དགོས། དབྱར་དང་སྟོན་གྱི་རྒྱུ་ཆར་དཔྱིད་དུས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་ཆ་ལས་དེའི་ཚད་མཐོ་...
Name Breakdown
信阳 (Xìnyáng) — the city name, dating back to the Suì era (隋, 589–618); 红 (hóng) — "red," indicating the tea type. Simple, memorable, and contrastin...
Alkaloids
Caffeine ~2.5–3.5% dry mass; theobromine, theophylline.
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, manganese, zinc, fluorine, selenium.
Vitamins
B₁, B₂, P (rutin); trace amounts of C (partially destroyed during oxidation).
Early harvest months
3, 4
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