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Gaiwan

Diān Hóng Jīn Zhēn滇红金针

Diānhóng jīn zhēn

Origin
China, Yúnnán Province (云南省, Yúnnán shěng)
Tea type
Gaiwan
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
SKU · DIANHONG-JIN-ZHEN-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Yúnnán Province (云南省, Yúnnán shěng)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
DIANHONG-JIN-ZHEN-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
3–5 g per 150–200 ml water.
Teaware
Porcelain or glass gaiwan (盖碗, gàiwǎn), glass teapot (for visual effect of opening "needles"), thin-walled porcelain teapot, Yíxīng teapot from zhūní (朱...
Water temperature
90 °C
Gongfu water temperature
93 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Red
Taste
Liquor Aroma
Bright, enveloping. Honey-malt notes interweave with dried fruits, chocolate, caramel, flowers, spices. Light acidity is possible, adding complexity. When cooling, nuances of bu...
Liquor Color
From amber-red to red-brown, rich, transparent, clear, with deep shade and characteristic luster. "Golden ring" (金圈, jīnquān) around the cup edge—indicator of quality ...
Spent Leaves
Opened buds and leaves, elastic, reddish-brown or copper colored. Golden buds are well distinguished against darker leaves. Uniformity of form and color—sign of good quality.
Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
1
Sensory Source Descriptor Ch Intensity
2
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
3
Details
Cultivar
Large-leaf variety Yúnnán Dǎ Yè Zhǒng (云南大叶种, Yúnnán Dàyèzhǒng)—*Camellia sinensis* var. *assamica*. Main cultivars:
Raw Material
High. Young, undamaged, juicy buds and leaves covered with golden down. Hand-picked in dry weather.
Name Breakdown
ནི་ཡུན་ནན་གྱི་སྔ་རབས་ཀྱི་མིང་ཡིན་ལ། ཞན་རྒྱལ་(滇国, Diānguó) ཞེས་པའི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཆུང་ངུ་དང་ཧན་རྒྱལ་རབས་(སྤྱི་ལོའི་སྔོན་དུས་རབས་༤ པ་ནས་སྤྱི་ལོའི་དུས་རབས་༡ པའི་བར་) ནས་བྱུང་བའོ།
Alkaloids
Caffeine—2–4% (about 14–15 mg/g). Theobromine and theophylline—in trace amounts. Caffeine content may be somewhat higher than pure bud teas due to leaf presence.
Amino Acids
2.5–3.5% of dry matter. L-theanine dominates, but its ratio to polyphenols is somewhat lower than pure Jin Ya—this shifts the balance from "sweetness" to "richnes...
Essential Oils
Rich aromatic complex: linalool, geraniol, β-ionone, phenylethanol, nerolidol, methyl salicylate. Leaf presence enriches aroma with malty and spicy notes.
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