Taiping Houkui hand-pinched spring green tea leaves
Taiping Houkui hand-pinned spring green tea leaves
Taiping Houkui hand-pinched spring green tea leaves
Hand-pinched Taiping Houkui spring green tea leaves
Hand-pinned Taiping Houkui spring green tea leaves
Hand-pinched Taiping Houkui spring green tea leaves
Taiping Houkui hand-pinched spring green tea leaves
Taiping Houkui spring green tea leaves on white plate

手揉み茶葉 太平号魁 春茶

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説明
  • 中国茶:手捏尖太平猴魁绿茶春茶
  • 翻訳:手捏尖 太平猴魁緑茶春茶
  • タイプ:緑茶
  • 品種:十大葉
  • 産地:安徽黄山
  • 収穫:春茶 2026/04/08
  • 保存方法:冷蔵、密閉、防潮、避光
  • 本当に味が違う緑茶をお探しですか?単に草臭くて苦いだけで、「これほど評判が良いのはなぜ?」と疑問に思うようなお茶ではありませんか?そう思うのはあなただけではありません。長年、茶愛好家たちは「太平猴魁」と銘打たれたお茶を買わされては、写真とは似ても似つかない見た目に、古臭い香りと平坦な味わい、あるいは最悪の場合、苦くて渋いものに失望してきました。美しい長く平らな針状の茶葉ではなく、折れた葉や茶粉が届いたという人もいます。また、購入したお茶が本物の太平猴魁ではなく、保護地域外で機械プレスされた模造品だったことに、手遅れになって気づいた人も少なくありません。

    そこで、ようやくその期待に応えるお茶をご紹介します。

  • こちらこそが本物です。2026年新茶。清代以来、本物の 太平猴魁茶 が生産されてきた唯一の地、安徽省黄山の霧深い山々から直送されています。

    小さな粒に丸められる一般的な緑茶とは異なり、太平猴魁 緑茶 は一目でその違いがわかります。茶葉は長く平らでまっすぐ、一本あたり約2~3インチほど。伝統の製法どおり、柔らかな芽を2枚の葉が包んでいます。これは 手捏尖太平猴魁黄山緑茶 であり、古来伝わる「捏尖」技法を用いて、すべて手作業で仕上げられています。機械も近道も使いません。すべての茶葉を一枚一枚プレスし、厳密に管理された温度で竹かごの上で乾燥させます。決して丸めないため、うっかり長く淹れてしまっても、苦味が驚くほど抑えられています。

  • 太平猴魁とは、文字通り「太平」県の「侯」と呼ばれる小さな谷(侯康村)に住む「王魁」氏の茶という意味です。かつてこの地の人々が十大葉で生産していたのは建茶というお茶で、今でも入手でき、太平猴魁の名で販売されることもあります。19世紀末、王氏は自領の特に勢の強い茶樹で、より上質なお茶が作れると考え、摘み取った茶葉の中から最上級のものを選び、加工の際に特別な手作業を加えました。建茶のように葉を軽く丸めてまっすぐに保つのではなく、低温で焙じる際にメッシュの間でローラーを使ってプレスし、非常に薄くまっすぐに仕上げたのです。こうして、この素晴らしい見た目のお茶が生まれました。
  • 太平猴魁(Tài Píng Hóu Kuí、「太平の猴魁」)—このお茶の素晴らしさは、独自の品種から始まり、手間暇をかけた緻密な加工方法、そして「太平の猴魁」を意味するその名に至るまで、あらゆる点に満ちています。安徽省の有名な黄山(黄山)を故郷とする太平猴魁は、中国で最も有名な緑茶の一つであり、1915年のパナマ万国博覧会で金メダルを獲得し、世界的にその名を馳せました。 
  • これは、かつて太平県であり、現在は黄山市の管轄下にある太平猴魁の故郷で栽培される、特別に指定された茶品種「十大葉」で作られた太平猴魁です。一本一本は小さな低木ですが、このお茶を生み出す大きな若葉を育みます。
  • 中国の有名な緑茶の中で最後に春に摘み取られるこのお茶は、穀雨(文字通り「穀物の雨」)から始まり夏至(立夏)まで、約15日間という非常に短い摘採期間しかありません。核心地域産の猴魁は非常に限られており、事前に予約していない人にはなかなか手に入りません。この期間中、摘採はしばしば1~2回しか行われず、それが希少性をさらに高めています。
  • まず、太平猴魁は中国で最も葉が大きい緑茶です。その葉が柿のように大きいため、柿の木の一種である「柿大種」という品種から名付けられました(実際には柿の葉ほど大きくはありませんが、誇張です)。摘採は夜明けに始まり、朝露が乾くまで続き、24時間以上かけて加工されます。摘採期間は天候によってはわずか1~2週間ほどで、山頂にはこの短い活動期間のためだけに存在する、普段は人が住まない村全体が設けられています。 
  • 摘み取ったばかりのお茶は、殺青(「緑を殺す」工程)の前に休ませ、その後、細心の注意を払って手作業でまっすぐに整え、異なる温度で6種類の炭火を当てる段階的な乾燥工程にかけられます。その結果、大きな平らな茶葉、苦みのない豊かで甘い味わい、鮮やかな気色(きいろ)が、ひと目でわかるようになります。 
  • 侯村で栽培される地元産の「十大葉」の初摘み茶葉で作られたこのお茶は、砂糖のような甘みに、喉の奥に広がる心地よい蘭の香りが合わさっています。茶湯の質感は豊かで洗練されており、香りが茶全体に深く溶け込んでいます。他の有名な緑茶と比較しても、この猴魁は見た目だけでなく茶湯においても、おそらく最も優雅な緑茶として真に際立っています。
  • この茶葉に熱湯を注ぐと、魔法のようなことが起こります。まず、繊細で優雅、そして紛れもない蘭の香りが立ち上がります。茶湯は淡く輝く翡翠色に変わります。そして味わいは?澄んでいて、滑らかで、ベルベットのようです。一口ごとに新鮮な竹、甘い栗、そしてほのかな旨みが広がり、最後にはカップが空になった後も長く残る甘さが続きます。これこそが、最高の 太平猴魁手揉緑茶 です(ただし「手揉み」という名称は厳密には少し不正確で、実際には手プレスです。真の愛好家ならその違いを理解しています)。3~4回の抽出にわたって美しく持ちこたえ、淹れるたびに新しい味わいの層が現れます。
  • 日々の茶のラインナップを補充する時でも、心のこもった贈り物を探している時でも、あるいは中国十大名茶の一つに対する好奇心をついに満たしたい時でも、この太平猴魁は、写真や説明、約束だけでは決して得られない体験をもたらします。
  • このお茶を淹れるなら、背の高いグラスを使わずにはいられません。 
    その大きさ、そして新鮮な緑色を見るためです。隠してしまうのはもったいないでしょう。 

    このお茶の最高の風味を引き出す素晴らしい方法の一つは、温度差を利用した「氷火」法です:
    -グラスの底に数個の氷を入れ、200mlの容量につき3~4gのお茶を入れます。
    -沸騰したお湯を、グラスの内側を回るようにゆっくりと、しかし絶え間なく注ぎます。
    -蓋をして6分間抽出します。
    -氷を使わない場合は、2回目以降の抽出には80℃のお湯を使用してください。

  • グラスでの淹れ方:
    -緑茶と水の比率は1:50で、約300mlのグラスには5gのお茶を入れます。
    -グラスにお湯(80~85℃)を注ぎ、グラスの壁に沿ってゆっくりと注ぎ、茶葉に十分に浸透させます。お湯を注ぐスピードは速すぎないようにしてください。
    -3~5分待って、美味しい緑茶の茶湯をお楽しみください。茶碗の3分の1ほど飲んだら、再びお湯を注ぎます。通常、3回ほど淹れることができます。
  • 太平猴魁を複数回の抽出で楽しむには、工夫茶がおすすめです。始めるには、当社の工夫茶の淹れ方ガイドをご覧ください。
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Melanie
Excellent Quality Tea

The color, flavor and taste are perfect; price is very reasonable! Now it has become our everyday routine tea of choice.

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Seniorita
Worlds best tea

The taste of Houkui tea leaves is fresh and refreshing, and it is very comfortable to drink. The brewed tea soup is clear and tastes good. After brewing, the tea bottom is very fresh and tender, and the color is beautiful.

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Nick Wilson
Excellent Tea!

The tea leaves are clean and consistent. No stems. Very fresh with wonderful smell. The leaves look different than other teas of this type that I've had -- probably a bit different roasting and possibly due to the organic farming methods. Don't steep too hot or too long. Flavor is wonderful. I will order again.

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Customer
The best green tea ever

I have been trying different green teas in US but never got the one that I really love until I came to this one: TAIPING HOUKUI Tea Loose Leaf. It is just the right flavor that I missed a lot. My friends also like it so much. I believe this will be my go to item whenever I want drink tea and will highly recommend to anyone that really enjoy green tea!

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Cecilia
Best chinese green tea

Best loose leaf traditional chinese green tea. Trust me. I’ve tried a few of the others and this is the only one that’s similar to tea bough directly from tea farmers in China.

よくある質問

The leaves I received were mostly broken pieces and dust. Why would yours be any different?
You're describing one of the most common complaints on tea forums. One buyer wrote: "It had a bit of orchid and nutty taste, but many broken leaves, few are the correct length." Another noted that poor quality Houkui contains "a lot of broken pieces… a mixture of various sizes and shapes." Here's why that happens: cheap machine-pressed "bu jian" tea gets crushed during high-speed production. Real Hand-Pinched Taiping Houkui Huangshan Green Tea is handled individually from picking to packing. One experienced worker can only produce about 500g of finished tea per day—each leaf hand-arranged, hand-pressed, and carefully packed. That's why our leaves arrive whole, intact, and unbroken. Open our bag, and you'll see long, flat, complete leaves—not a pile of crumbs and frustration.
I bought 'Taiping Houkui' before and it tasted bitter and unpleasant. What went wrong?
You're not alone. This is the single most common reason people give up on this tea. Here's what actually happened: Real Taiping Houkui Tea is never rolled. That's the whole point. Most green teas get twisted and rolled, which crushes cell walls and releases bitter tannins. Authentic Houkui is hand-pinched and dried flat—no crushing, minimal bitterness. One tea expert explains: "The hou kui leaf is denser, and packs a lot more color and, when brewed, flavor." Cheap machine-pressed versions don't follow this process. As the same expert puts it: "A bu jian leaf can look just like a hou kui leaf, but once they are brewed, the veil will be lifted, and the flat bitterness of the leaf will expose the imposter." If yours was bitter, you were sold a fake—machine-pressed from the wrong cultivar, processed wrong, and labeled wrong. Ours is the real Tai Ping Hou Kui Monkey Picked Green Tea (no monkeys, just the real process). Bitter? Almost impossible.
I tried brewing this tea and got a weird plastic/roasted taste. What happened?
A buyer on a tea forum once described exactly this: "I realized that the flavor was not that of plastic but some sort of roasted flavor from the tea. It took me about 7 or 8 brewings to get past it." Two things could cause this. First, if your water was too hot (above 85°C/185°F), you're scorching the delicate leaves—they're fresh spring harvest, not charcoal. Second, cheap imitations are often over-roasted to mask poor leaf quality. Real Hand-Pinched Anhui Huangshan Green Tea should never taste roasted or plasticky. Use 75-80°C (167-176°F) water—if you don't have a thermometer, boil and let it sit for 2 minutes. Steep for 2 minutes. If it still tastes off, you're not drinking real Houkui.
I bought 'premium grade' Houkui before that had no aroma and tasted like hot water.
This is infuriating. You paid extra for "premium" and got stale leaves that had been sitting on a warehouse shelf for who knows how long. Green tea is not like wine—it doesn't improve with age. The vibrant orchid fragrance of fresh Taiping Houkui чай peaks within weeks of harvest and steadily fades. Real Taiping Houkui Tea should have a "long-lasting flavor with orchid scent, especially on the first brewing." When you open our bag, you should smell fresh, floral, inviting aroma immediately. If you can't smell anything, the tea is stale. Full stop. We sell 2026 fresh spring harvest. Once it's gone, it's gone until next April. No leftover stock from previous years.
The photos looked amazing, but what arrived had leaves that were too thin and almost translucent. What is that?
You were sold "bu jian"—the machine-pressed fake. This is so common it has its own name. One detailed breakdown explains: "Bu jian is much flatter. This makes bu jian leaves wider, thinner, and more transparent than hou kui leaves." Another source adds that counterfeit versions are "flattened to the point of translucency." Real Taiping Houkui Hand-Pinched Green Tea has thick, fleshy leaves with substance. They should never look like you could read a newspaper through them. If your current tea looks transparent and papery, you're holding machine-pressed fake.
I keep hearing conflicting info about caffeine in green tea. How much is actually in here?
Real Taiping Houkui Tee contains significantly less caffeine than coffee—typically 30-40mg per 200ml cup, compared to 95-200mg for coffee. That's about 10-15% of a standard coffee. It provides a gentle, focused alertness without the jitters or afternoon crash. Perfect for late morning or early afternoon. You won't be staring at the ceiling at 2am.
I want to cold brew this. Will that work or will it taste weird?
It works beautifully. In fact, cold brewing is one of the best ways to enjoy Hand-Pinched Taiping Houkui Green Tea. Here's why: the no-rolling process means no bitter tannins to extract, even with prolonged steeping. Cold water draws out the sweet, floral notes while leaving any trace of astringency behind. Method: 5g leaves, 500ml cold water, refrigerator for 6-8 hours (overnight works perfectly). The result is naturally sweet, refreshing, and requires zero sugar. Many tea drinkers who "don't like iced tea" change their minds after trying this.
What's the deal with the 'monkey' name? Are monkeys actually involved?
No monkeys were harmed—or employed—in the making of this tea. The name "Hou Kui" means "Monkey Chief" or "Monkey Leader." Two competing origin stories: one says the leaves resemble a monkey's paw in shape; another says a tea farmer named Wang Kui (nicknamed "Monkey") developed it. Either way, "Tai Ping Hou Kui Monkey Picked Green Tea" is marketing folklore, not fact. The tea is outstanding regardless. Don't buy it for the monkey story. Buy it because it tastes good.
What makes Hand-Pinched Tips Taiping Houkui Spring Tea different from other green teas?
This Taiping Houkui is handcrafted using traditional techniques, featuring long, flat leaves that are carefully pressed by hand to preserve their natural shape and flavor, ensuring a unique and authentic green tea experience.
How should I store my Taiping Houkui tea to maintain its freshness?
To keep your Taiping Houkui fresh, store it in a sealed, moisture-proof container in the refrigerator, and avoid light exposure to preserve its delicate flavors and aroma.
What are the recommended brewing methods for the best flavor of Taiping Houkui?
You can brew Taiping Houkui using a glass cup with 5g of tea in 80~85°C water, steeping for 3-5 minutes. It also responds well to the polarized temperature technique, using ice and boiling water for a unique taste profile.
What are the key characteristics of authentic Taiping Houkui tea?
Authentic Taiping Houkui features large, flat, straight leaves with a sweet, floral aroma, a smooth, velvety taste with notes of bamboo and chestnut, and a vibrant jade liquor that reflects its high-quality craftsmanship.
Is this Taiping Houkui suitable for multiple infusions, and how does the flavor evolve?
Yes, Taiping Houkui can be steeped three to four times, with each infusion revealing new layers of flavor—from delicate orchid and bamboo notes to a fuller, more refined taste, making it a versatile tea for connoisseurs.