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Húběi Zī Jìng
Golden cup
Brewing profile
Origin notes
Tea origin
Gaiwan
Húběi Zī Jìng湖北紫荆
Húběi zǐjīng
- Origin
- China, Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi), central regions between the Yangtz...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 70 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
SKU · HUBEI-ZIJING-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China, Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi), central regions between the Yangtze River (长江, Chángjiāng) and Hàn River (汉水, Hànshuǐ)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- HUBEI-ZIJING-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
- ཇ་འདིར་ཆུ་འཇམ་པོ་(བབ་ཆུ་དང་ཚགས་ཆུ) ཧ་ཅང་གལ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན། རྡོ་ཆུས་ཕྲ་མོའི་དྲི་མ་འགེབས་སུ་འཇུག ཆུ་ཁོལ་བ་བསྐྱར་གསོ་བྱས་པ་བེད་སྤྱོད་མི་བྱེད།
- Tea amount
- 3–4 g per 150 ml water.
- Teaware
- Glass cup for observing needle unfolding; porcelain gaiwan (盖碗, gàiwǎn) for controlled brewing; porcelain teapot — for European style (longer steepings).
- Water temperature
- 70 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Thin, tightly rolled needles (针形, zhēnxíng) 10–12 mm long, olive-green in color. Bud tips are covered with delicate white down. Leaf is even, uniform, with good integrity.
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Fresh, grassy, with light floral and fruity notes. No pronounced "roasted" character — a characteristic feature of steamed teas.
- Liquor Color
- Light yellow with distinct greenish tint, transparent.
- Spent Leaves
- Leaves fully unfold, demonstrating their integrity and tenderness. Color — bright green, even, lively.
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 2
- Sensory Source Descriptor H Intensity
- 2
Details
- Cultivar
- *Camellia sinensis* var. *sinensis* — Chinese variety. Plants belong to ancient breeding lines of central China, adapted to the temperate climate of the Yangtze-Han river region...
- Pluck Standard
- First-level flush — bud and two young opened leaves (一芽二叶, yī yá èr yè). Young shoots with buds covered in silvery down (trichomes).
- Raw Material
- Uniform, without coarse leaves and stems, without mechanical damage. Healthy, clean raw material is selected without signs of diseases and pests.
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine (~2–4%), theobromine, theophylline.
- Amino Acids
- Content is lower than in spring teas of highest grades, but sufficient for forming pleasant sweetness and mildness.
- Polyphenols
- Main antioxidant group, including EGCG. Content in summer raw material is somewhat higher than in spring, which partially compensates for reduced amino acid concentration.
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