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Gaiwan

Ya'an Hēi Chá雅安黑茶

Yǎ'ān hēichá

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川省, Sìchuān Shěng), Ya'an Prefecture-level ...
Tea type
Dark Tea
Water temperature
95 °C
Gongfu water temperature
100 °C
SKU · YA-AN-HEICHA-CN
Tea dossier

Provenance and specifications

Origin
China, Sìchuān Province (四川省, Sìchuān Shěng), Ya'an Prefecture-level City (雅安市, Yǎ'ān Shì)
Tea type
Gaiwan
SKU
YA-AN-HEICHA-CN

Brewing recipes

  • Gongfu: 100°C, 6 g / 100 ml, 10s, 10 steeps
  • Western: 100°C, 3 g / 200 ml, 180s, 2 steeps
Tea dossier

Brewing, origin and taste notes

Brewing
Process
བཞག་སྨིན་བྱས་པའི་གཅོང་འཕྲུལ་ཇར་ ཆོག་མཆན་ཡོད་ཅིང་། དེ་ནི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་གྱི་ཐབས་ཤིག་ཡིན། ཆུ་རྫིངས་དུ་བཅུག་ལ། ཇ་བླུགས། མེ་ཉུང་དུ་གཏོང་ནས་སྐར་མ་ 3–5 བཙོ། ཡུན་རིང་དྲགས་པར་བཙོས་ན རྩུབ་ཆ་...
Tea amount
Gongfu method — 4–6 g per 100–120 ml; teapot steeping — 2–3 g per 250 ml; boiling — 5–7 g per 600 ml.
Water temperature
95 °C
Gongfu water temperature
100 °C
Tea amount
6 g
Gongfu water volume
100 ml
Origin
Tea type
Dark
Alt Names
Ya'an Zàng Chá (雅安藏茶, Yǎ'ān Zàngchá — "Ya'an Tibetan Tea"), Nán Lù Biān Chá (南路边茶, Nánlù Biānchá — "...
Taste
Dry Leaf Aroma
Clean, without foreign odors, with a warm base of aged tea. Fresh production — light grassy notes; aged batches — dried fruit sweetness and woody depth.
Liquor Color
From amber-red to deep red-brown (褐红明亮, hèhóng míngliàng), clear and dense, in the best samples — with characteristic ruby shine, resembling amber color.
Spent Leaves
Brown to dark brown, leaf dense, often with petiole inclusions. Texture soft but resilient — sign of complete fermentation.
Sensory Source Descriptor Dt Intensity
3
Sensory Source Descriptor L Intensity
2
Sensory Source Descriptor Mn Intensity
3
Details
Alkaloids
Caffeine (咖啡碱, kāfēijiǎn) — content moderate, lower than in green teas, thanks to partial degradation during prolonged fermentation. Theobromine and theophylline are also present.
Amino Acids
Including L-theanine (L-茶氨酸) — an amino acid characteristic of tea leaf, providing mild relaxing effect. Total free amino acid content is moderate, since part of them is consume...
Vitamins
B-group vitamins (B₁, B₂, B₆), vitamin C (in small amounts, partially destroyed during fermentation), vitamin PP (nicotinic acid).
Early harvest months
3, 4
Late harvest months
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Peak harvest months
3, 4, 5
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