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Green Needles Quntizhong
Douglas fir, spring meadow,
pine resin, lively and bright
About this tea
This micro-lot of Green Needles is produced from tea bushes called Quntizhong, an indigenous heirloom variety of tea bushes prized in this growing region since the mid-1700s. The rocky gardens of Xuan'en County offer rich tasting and balanced green teas with high density, bold energy, slight umami in balance with evergreen and alpine notes that refresh and invigorate.
Green Needles, or “Lu Zhen,” is a traditional pine needle-shaped green tea. After indoor withering, the tea leaves are fired in a small tumble-roaster and shaped using special heated table machines that shake the tea leaves back and forth repeatedly to coax the leaves into a straight needle shape. The tea leaves are dried on hot air-flow tables while continuously stirred and shaped by hand and finally baked to perfection in a conveyor oven to raise and fix the aroma and taste.
Every spring we savor the rich complexity of this heirloom garden’s first spring harvested green tea with joy. Green Needles is not a well-known Chinese green tea but it is one of our favorites that showcases remote terroir and small leaf green tea traditions.
Origin
Xiaoguan Village, Xuan’en County, Hubei Province, China
Cultivar
Local Qunti Zhong
Harvest
March - April
Elevation
1000 meters
Ingredients
Green tea
Ingredients
Green tea
Origin
Xiaoguan Village, Xuan’en County, Hubei Province, China
Cultivar
Local Qunti Zhong
Harvest
March - April
Elevation
1000 meters
Teaware
Everything You Need to Brew the Perfect Cup
Everything You Need to
Brew the Perfect Cup
Origin
Xiaoguan Village
Xuan’en County, Hubei Province, China
The high mountain, rocky gardens and special soil structures of Xiaoguan Village offers us amazing and pristine organic green teas. Since 2005, we have traveled to this area and are taken by the commitment of the local people to steward real organic agriculture from soil to overall management of not just their tea gardens but all the foods, produce and animal husbandry in their villages.