Yu Hua Cha
A Nanjing green tea rolled into fine dark-green needles resembling pine, created in the 1950s and named for a local hillside. Its tight needle shape is achieved by hand-rolling each batch against the palm rather than by machine.
Character
Fresh and lightly resinous, with a pine-needle quality that matches its appearance.
- Flavour
- Grassy, Nutty, Woody
- Aroma
- Fresh
- Mouthfeel
- Light, Smooth
- Complexity
- Straightforward
- Notes
- pine, fresh grass, chestnut
- Aftertaste
- Clean with a faint resinous edge.
Moderate intensity: noticeable weight or grip, but neither dominates the cup.
Provenance and production
- Origin
- China
- Oxidation
- Unoxidised
- Harvest
- Spring
- Processing
- Kill-green (fixation) → Rolling and shaping → Drying
Brewing
Western brewing (teapot or mug)
1.5–2.5 g/100 ml · 75–85 °C · 1 authored infusion
Gongfu brewing (gaiwan)
3–4 g/100 ml · 75–85 °C · 4 authored infusions
No caffeine estimate is authored for this tea. TeaHQ does not infer one from its category, because category predicts caffeine poorly — matcha and gyokuro carry more than many black teas.
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Editorially linked
Someone wrote down why these two belong together. The note below is theirs.
- Song Yang Yin Hou
Two twentieth-century Chinese greens created for regional markets, both shaped into fine strands. Both are modern inventions rather than inherited teas.
Similar sensory profile
Shares controlled flavour, aroma and mouthfeel descriptors. A looser match — two teas can share descriptors and still taste nothing alike.
- Bancha
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: grassy, nutty, light, smooth and fresh.
- Huoshan Huangya
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: nutty, grassy, light, smooth and fresh.
- Jin Shan Cui Ya
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: nutty, grassy, light, smooth and fresh.
- Korean green tea
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: nutty, grassy, light, smooth and fresh.
- Wu Niu Zao
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: grassy, nutty, light, smooth and fresh.
- Wuyuan Ming Mei
Shares 5 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: grassy, nutty, light, smooth and fresh.
- Bai Ji Guan
Shares 4 descriptors with Yu Hua Cha: nutty, light, smooth and fresh.