Dragon Well Long Jing 43
Organic Garden Direct Green Tea
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Dragon Well Long Jing 43
Dragon Well Long Jing 43
Dragon Well Long Jing 43

Dragon Well is a famous Chinese Tribute Tea once given as a tax payment to Chinese emperors and gifted to presidents and dignitaries in recent times.


About 25 Servings

Qty:

Sweetgrass, alpine herbs, chestnut

and classic roasting

About this tea

This Dragon Well is comprised of tender buds and leaves harvested during the early spring Mingqian harvest season in the last days of March and first few days of April, resulting in a refreshing, dewy and sweet infusion. Dragon Well is a famous Chinese Tribute Tea once given as a tax payment to Chinese emperors and gifted to presidents and dignitaries in recent times. It was the tea that was presented to Nixon and Kissinger when they first visited China. This 2023 harvest batch was produced with the traditional tea bush cultivar named Long Jing #43 (literally, “Dragon Well #43”). It offers the classic Dragon Well profile of fresh spring greens balanced with chestnut sweetness and a mild toasted aroma.

Dragon Well is a pan-roasted green tea produced by “flat-frying” the tea leaves in hot wok shaped pans. The dried tea leaves take on a flat, spear shaped, blade-like appearance. The heated stirring, tossing and pressing action carried out in the hot woks initiates the Maillard reaction which slightly roasts and caramelizes the tea leaves. This special artisanal tea making style creates a pleasant roasted chestnut aroma balanced with fresh notes of alpine herbs and sweetgrass.

Ingredients

Green tea

Origin

Jin Long Ping Village, Xuan’en County, Hubei Province, China

Cultivar

Long Jing #43

Harvest

March - September

Elevation

700 - 900 meters

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Origin

Jin Long Ping

Xuan’en County, Hubei Province, China

We work with tea farmers in the remote, high elevation tea gardens of Xuan En county. Nestled amongst the forested Wuling Mountain range, which rolls into western Hubei province from neighboring Sichuan province, these farms create an ideal climate for organic tea with an exceptionally unique character.

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