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Jīnguā Gòng Chá
Pu-erh Tea
Jīnguā Gòng Chá金瓜贡茶
jīnguā gòngchá
- Origin
- China, Yúnnán Province (云南, Yúnnán). Historical homeland — territory ...
- Tea type
- Pu-erh Tea
- Caffeine Level
- Medium
- Water Temperature
- 95.000000
Tea notes
Brewing, origin and taste.
Imperial pu-erh in the shape of a golden pumpkin: liquid gold with a 300-year history.
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Brewing, origin and taste notes
Brewing
- Brewing Temperature
- 95.000000 - 100.000000
- Tea Amount
- 5–7 g per 100–150 ml water when brewing by gongfu cha method. When brewing in large vessels — 5 g per 250 ml (1:50 ratio).
- Water Temperature
- 95.000000
- Brewing Notes
- Ideal choice, especially "zini" or "duanni" clay. Porous structure of Yixing clay absorbs and returns aromas, creating teapot "memory" that enriche...
- Water Temperature Detail
- 95–100°C. For Jingua Gong Cha only just-boiled or nearly boiling water is used — high temperature is necessary for full opening of densely compressed bud raw material and e...
- Gongfu Water Temperature
- 98.000000
Origin
- Tea Type
- Puer
- Origin Country
- CN
- Province
- Yunnan
- Category
- Special form of compressed pu-erh (紧压茶, jǐnyā chá); historical imperial tribute (贡茶, gòngchá). One of the most famous and expensive pu-erhs in history. Included a...
- Coordinates
- Approximately 22°08' North latitude, 101°28' East longitude (Yibang-Mansong area, Mengla County).
- Origin
- China, Yúnnán Province (云南, Yúnnán). Historical homeland — territory of the Six Great Tea Mountains (六大茶山, Liù Dà Cháshān) in Xīshuāngbǎnn...
Taste
- Dry Leaf Appearance
- Pressed tea has characteristic pumpkin-like or spherical form — squat-round, with relief edges resembling pumpkin segments. Surface is dense, smooth or slightly bumpy. Color dep...
- Dry Leaf Aroma
- Aged tea possesses deep, warm aroma with notes of dried longan (桂圆干, guìyuán gān), old wood, camphor. Shǔ versions are distinguished by notes of red dates (枣香, zǎo xiā...
- Liquor Aroma
- Deep, multi-layered. Dominated by "chen xiang" (陈香, chénxiāng) — "aged aroma," combining notes of old wood, parchment, dry medicinal herbs (药香, yào...
- Liquor Color
- Sheng pu-erh: from yellow-green (young) through amber (5–15 years) to deep ruby-chestnut (20+ years). Shu pu-erh: rich dark ruby, red-chestnut (红浓, hóng nóng — "r...
- Spent Leaves
- High-quality Jingua Gong Cha from bud raw material demonstrates whole, tender, compact buds with golden shade. Sheng version — reddish-brown, elastic. Shu version — dark chestnu...
- Taste
- Dominated by characteristics "chunhou" (醇厚, chúnhòu — "dense, thick, oily"), 甘 (gān — "sweet, with long aftertaste"), 滑 (huá — "...
Details
- Cultivar
- The foundation for Jingua Gong Cha is the Yunnan large-leaf variety — Yúnnán Dǎ Yè Zhǒng (云南大叶种, Yúnnán Dàyèzhǒng), botanically belonging to *...
- Picking
- Spring picking (春茶, chūnchá), predominantly in March-April. Historically, preference was given to the earliest spring raw material, when buds are maximally filled with sap ...
- Phase
- Early
- Early Months
- 3,4
- Late Months
- 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
- Peak Months
- 3,4
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