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Gaiwan

Éméi Zhúyèqīng峨眉竹叶青

Éméi zhúyèqīng

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川, Sìchuān), Lèshān City (乐山, Lèshān), Moun...
Tea type
Green Tea
Water temperature
85 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
SKU · EMEI-ZHUYEQING-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川, Sìchuān), Lèshān City (乐山, Lèshān), Mount Éméishān (峨眉山, Éméi Shān)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
EMEI-ZHUYEQING-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
བཙོ་དུས་ཡུན་རིང་དུ་མ་བཞག ཡུན་རིང་ན་དྲོད་ཚ་ཆེར་འགྲོ། མཆོག་གི་རོ་ནི་མགྱོགས་པོའི་ཆུ་བླུགས་སྐབས་ཐོན་ཏེ། སོས་པ་དང་ 嫩栗 གི་མངར་ཆ་མངོན་པར་འགྱུར།
Tea amount
3–5 g per 150–200 ml water (ratio 1:50).
Water temperature
85 °C
Gongfu water temperature
75 °C
Tea amount
5 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Green
Taste
Dry Leaf Aroma
Delicate chestnut aroma (嫩栗香, nèn lì xiāng) — characteristic of flat pan-fired green teas. Clean green freshness (清香, qīngxiāng). Without grassiness or "raw"...
Liquor Aroma
Clean, high, fresh. Chestnut note smoothly transitions to green sweetness. Aroma delicate, without obtrusiveness.
Liquor Color
Light green, clean and clear, with gentle yellow-green tint.
Spent Leaves
Tender, uniform buds, unfolded from flat tea leaves. Color — light green, lively. Buds whole, elastic, without damage.
Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
4
Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
1
Details
Cultivar
Local indigenous varieties of *Camellia sinensis* var. *sinensis*, growing on Mount Emeishan. A specific monovarietal cultivar is not declared — a combination of local populatio...
Raw Material
Tender, uniform, plump buds without damage. Processing — on the day of picking.
Alkaloids
Caffeine — moderate content. Theobromine, theophylline.
Amino Acids
Elevated content — result of slowed growth in conditions of low insolation and coolness. Amino acids provide the pronounced freshness and mildness characteristic of "cloudy...
Minerals
Potassium, magnesium, zinc, manganese — profile determined by purple mineralized soils of Mount Emeishan.
Vitamins
Vitamin C, B-group vitamins, carotenoids.
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