Long Jin - Dragonwell

This is China's most famous Green tea, absolutely revered for its rich yet refreshing flavour and the fragrance of lush spring grass. This tea was picked on March 28th 2017 making it a very early Pre Qing Ming tea.

Authentic Long Jing tea (otherwise known as Dragonwell) must be grown in Zhejiang province. If it is grown anywhere else then it is considered a fake (much like champagne). Every year we taste many samples of Long Jing to find our batch for the year. This year we have selected a tea from outside the West Lake area because we felt that it had a much higher quality compared with the West Lake tea. It is from a less commercial cultivar too (Xiao Ye) with tea plants which are about 40 years old (older than average Long Jing plantations).