Chun Mee

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Chun Mee
Chun Mee tea leaves
Type: Green tea
Other names: chinese   珍 眉
Origin: China
Brief description: strong and tart
Temperature: 80 ° C
Time: 3-4 min.

Chun Mee ( Chinese  珍 眉 , Pinyin Zhenmei ) is a popular green tea from China .

Chun Mee is strong and slightly smoky and generally more acidic and less sweet than other green teas. The infusion is very light in color.

Originally the tea was only grown in the Chinese province of Jiangxi . Today, however, there are also corresponding cultivation areas in other regions, for example in Taiwan.

During production, the tea leaves are first steamed, then dried in the sun and allowed to wither. Then they are rolled and slightly bent so that their typical shape is created, which is reminiscent of small eyebrows and from which the name of the tea is derived. The name Chun Mee means "precious eyebrow". This tea corresponds to the classic taste profile that western tea drinkers expect from Chinese green tea.

Variety denomination

The Chun Mee tea is divided into several varieties and types with numbers. Some examples are: 41022, 4011, 9371, 8147, 9367, 9366, 3008 or 3009. The number 41,022 in this case represents the highest quality. With the variety number 8147, the tea consists practically only of broken leaves.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Growing areas on tee-magazin.de
  2. ↑ Production on tee-magazin.de
  3. ↑ Peter Rohrsen: The tea: cultivation, varieties, history . CH Beck, 2013, ISBN 3-406-65418-5 , pp. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ M. Spiro, D. Jaganyi, MC Broom, Kinetics and equilibria of tea infusion. IX: The rates and temperature coefficients of caffeine extraction from green Chun Mee and black Assam Bukial teas . In: Food Chemistry , Vol. 45: pp. 333-335, 1992