Rìyuètán Hóng Chá日月潭红茶
Rìyuètán hóngchá
- Origin
- Táiwān (臺灣, Táiwān), Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu Xiàn), Yúchí Township...
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- Water temperature
- 90 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- Táiwān (臺灣, Táiwān), Nántóu County (南投縣, Nántóu Xiàn), Yúchí Township (魚池鄉, Yúchí Xiāng) — the district surrounding Rìyuètán Lake (日月潭, Rìyuètán — "Sun Moon Lake")
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- RIYUETAN-HONGCHA-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 93°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 4 steeps
- Western: 88°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- ཉི་ཟླའི་མཚོ་དམར་ཇ་ནི་གྲང་མོའི་ཇ་ཁུར་བཙོས་ན་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག གྲམ་ ༥ ལ་ཆུ་གྲང་མོ་མི་ལི་ ༥༠༠ བླུགས་ཏེ། འཁྱག་སྒམ་ནང་དུ་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༦–༨ བཞག ཤིང་ཚ་དང་བོང་གི་གྲང་སིལ་གྲང་མོའི་རྣམ་པར་ཧ་ཅང་གསལ་བོར་གྲུབ།
- Tea amount
- 4–5 g per 100–120 ml (gongfu); 3 g per 200–250 ml (European method).
- Water temperature
- 90 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 93 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
- Gongfu water volume
- 100 ml
Origin
- Tea type
- Red
- Alt Names
- Taiwan Hóng Chá (臺灣紅茶); by specific cultivars: Hóng Yǔ (紅玉, "Red Jade" — Tai Cha No. 18), Hóng Yùn (紅韻, "Red Rhyme" — Tai Cha No. 21...
- Soil
- Fertile red and lateritic soils, well-drained, rich in organics and minerals. Slightly acidic (pH ~4.5–5.5). Ideally suited for large-leaf Assam cultivars.
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Medium-length strips, tightly twisted, with golden-reddish tips. Color — dark brown to black, with oily luster. Leaves larger than small-leaf Chinese red teas — heritage of Assa...
- Liquor Aroma
- Multi-layered. First layer — cinnamon and mint (fresh, mentholated coolness). Second — caramel, burnt sugar, honey. Third — light fruity notes (pineapple, lychee). With cooling ...
- Liquor Color
- Deep ruby-red ("scarlet jade"), bright, clear. It was precisely for this color that the tea received the name "Red Jade."
- Spent Leaves
- Large, whole, fleshy leaves of copper-red color, elastic. Assam heritage — leaves noticeably larger than Chinese red teas.
- Sensory Source Descriptor Be Intensity
- 3
- Sensory Source Descriptor Ch Intensity
- 2
Details
- Cultivar
- Main cultivars used for Riyuetan Hong Cha:
- Pluck Standard
- One bud with two-three leaves (一芽二三葉). Hand-picking is mandatory for premium batches (手採, shǒu cǎi).
- Raw Material
- Large, healthy, undamaged shoots. Rapid delivery to the workshop.
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine — content lower than pure Assam, due to contribution of Taiwanese wild component.
- Amino Acids
- L-theanine and other amino acids. Content — moderate.
- Minerals
- Potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc.
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