Sanjiang Lü Chá三江绿茶
Sānjiāng lǜchá
- Origin
- China; Guǎngxī Zhuāng Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区, Guǎngxī); Sānjiāng ...
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China; Guǎngxī Zhuāng Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区, Guǎngxī); Sānjiāng Dōng Autonomous County (三江侗族自治县, Sānjiāng Dòngzú Zìzhìxiàn), part of Liuzhou Prefecture-level City (柳州市, Liǔzhōu Shì)
- Tea type
- Gaiwan
- SKU
- SANJIANG-LUCHA-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 75°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
- Western: 70°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- སན་ཅང་ལུའུ་ཆ་ནི་ཇ་བཞོ་བར་བཟོད་པའི་ནུས་པ་ཐུན་མོང་མ་ཡིན་པ་ལྡན་པ་དང་། དེ་ནི་ཡང་དག་པའི་ཇ་བཞོ་ཐེངས་མཐོ་ཤོས་(༧ བར་) ཀྱི་ལྗང་ཇ་གྲས་ཤིག་ཡིན།
- Tea amount
- 3 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio).
- Teaware
- Glass cup (玻璃杯) — for observing leaf opening; white porcelain gaiwan (白瓷盖碗) — for aroma concentration.
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 75 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Soil
- Yellow-red loams (黄红壤, huáng hóng rǎng), pH 4.5–6.0, organic matter ≥1%. Good drainage ensured by mountainous terrain.
Taste
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Chestnut (栗香, lì xiāng) — dominant note, high and sharp (高锐, gāo ruì). Delicate orchid undertone (兰花香, lánhuā xiāng) on the "tail." With aging — light h...
- Liquor Aroma
- Chestnut-orchid, stable and long-lasting. With cooling acquires sweet "floral" background.
- Liquor Color
- Yellow-green, clear and bright (黄绿明亮).
- Spent Leaves
- Tender, even, lively (嫩匀鲜活); buds and leaves stand vertically (芽叶竖立) — sign of high-quality raw material.
- Taste
- Fresh and brisk (鲜爽, xiān shuǎng) — pronounced amino acid "liveliness." Sweet and clean (甘醇, gān chún), with long returning sweetness (回甘持久). Brewing resistance —...
- Sensory Source Descriptor Cz Intensity
- 2
Details
- Picking
- Ultra-early spring — from late January to early February, 20+ days earlier than other tea zones in China. Main period — February–April.
- Pluck Standard
- Premium grade — single buds or bud with one half-opened leaf (一芽一叶初展), abundant down. First grade — single buds + one leaf (90%). Second grade — bud with two leaves.
- Raw Material
- Tender shoots without damage. Planting — by cuttings; organic fertilizer 15–30 t/ha; chemical pesticides prohibited.
- Name Breakdown
- 三江 (Sānjiāng) — "Three Rivers" — after the three main waterways of the county. The Dong name for the locality reflects the triple confluence of water flows; 绿茶 (Lǜch&#...
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine in standard range for green tea; theobromine, theophylline.
- Amino Acids
- Up to 5% in elite high-altitude batches — 20% higher than average for green teas. L-theanine dominates, ensuring taste freshness and "gentle alertness."
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