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Sānxiá Lóng Jǐng
Gongfu Brewing
Sānxiá Lóng Jǐng三峡龙井
Sānxiá lóng jǐng
- Origin
- China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Yíchāng City (宜昌市, Yíchāng Shì)
- Tea type
- Green Tea
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 80 °C
SKU · SANXIA-LONG-JING-CN
Tea dossier
Provenance and specifications
- Origin
- China; Húběi Province (湖北, Húběi); Yíchāng City (宜昌市, Yíchāng Shì)
- Tea type
- Gongfu Brewing
- SKU
- SANXIA-LONG-JING-CN
Brewing recipes
- Gongfu: 80°C, 5 g / 100 ml, 10s, 3 steeps
- Western: 75°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier
Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Process
- ཐུམ་སྒྲོམ་ཁ་ཕྱེ་རྗེས་ཁ་རྒྱག་སྟེ་མཁོལ་ཁང་ནང་སྲུང་དགོས་ཤིང་ཟླ་བ་ ༢ ཀྱི་ནང་དུ་བེད་སྤྱོད་བྱེད་དགོས། མཚན་མོ་བཞག་པའི་ཇ་དེ་མི་འཐུང་།
- Tea amount
- 3 g per 150 ml (1:50 ratio).
- Teaware
- Glass cup (玻璃杯) — for observing the opening of flat "blades."
- Water temperature
- 80 °C
- Gongfu water temperature
- 80 °C
- Tea amount
- 5 g
Origin
- Tea type
- Green
- Soil
- Yellow-brown loams (黄棕壤, huáng zōng rǎng), pH 5.0–6.0, organic matter >1.5%. Soils are enriched with selenium (Se 0.15–0.3 μg/g) and zinc — a consequence of the geochemi...
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Flat, straight "sword blades" (扁平挺直, biǎnpíng tǐngzhí), emerald-green with noticeable silvery down (翠绿显毫). Shape is even, uniform.
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Tender chestnut (嫩栗香, nèn lì xiāng) — dominant note; clean green (清香, qīng xiāng) — spring accent. Chestnut character is more pronounced than in Xi Hu Long Jing — resu...
- Liquor Aroma
- Chestnut-green, high, persistent. With cooling, creamy-sweet nuances appear.
- Liquor Color
- Tender green, clear and bright (嫩绿清澈明亮).
- Spent Leaves
- Tender green, buds open as "flowers" (嫩绿成朵), even, lively and uniform (匀齐鲜活).
- Taste
- Fresh (鲜爽, xiān shuǎng) thanks to high amino acid content. Sweet (甘, gān) — with pronounced returning aftertaste. Body — medium-dense, harmonious (醇, chún), without excessi...
Details
- Picking
- Spring — from late February to April. Most valuable — "mingqian" (明前, míngqián, before Qingming festival), then — "yuqian" (雨前, yǔqián, before...
- Pluck Standard
- Supreme grade (特级) — single buds or bud with one half-opened leaflet (一芽一叶初展); content of pure buds ≥85%, length ≤2.5 cm. First grade — bud with one opened leaflet (一芽一叶开展), ≥80...
- Raw Material
- Tender young shoots without mechanical damage and traces of pests. Raw material is processed on the day of harvest.
- Alkaloids
- Caffeine in the standard range for green tea; in combination with L-theanine gives the effect of "calm concentration."
- Amino Acids
- ≥2.8% (spring tea); in Dengcun on old trees — up to 5.76% (data from China's Ministry of Agriculture). L-theanine — main component responsible for freshness and gentle invig...
- Minerals
- Selenium — 0.15–0.3 μg/g (natural geochemical marker); zinc, potassium, manganese, fluorine (the latter — elevated content, effective for caries prevention).
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