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2025 Reserve Pine Needle Green

2025 Reserve Pine Needle Green

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He Qingqing's Favorite Green Tea
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. The fresh 2025 harvest is coming soon and available for pre-order!
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. Early harvest with notes of pine, cardamom, tamarind and peony.
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. The fresh 2024 harvest is arriving now and shipping ASAP!
March 2025 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
ETA: May ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
He Qingqing's Favorite Green Tea
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. The fresh 2025 harvest is coming soon and available for pre-order!
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. Early harvest with notes of pine, cardamom, tamarind and peony.
Qingqing developed this unique finish with her father to bring out minerality and spice in her family's tea. The fresh 2024 harvest is arriving now and shipping ASAP!
March 2025 ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
ETA: May ♦ Laoshan, Shandong
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SPRING 2025 PRE-ORDER

This spring 2025 pre-order tea from the He Family in Laoshan is arriving now and available to reserve on pre-order while supplies last.

This tea is expected to arriving now and shipping ASAP!

This spring 2025 pre-order tea from the He Family in Laoshan is now available to reserve on pre-order while supplies last.

This tea is expected to arrive in May. Orders containing this pre-order tea will wait to ship until all teas in your order have arrived. 

Crafted By the He Family

Pioneers and community leaders, the He Family is dedicated to making a name for their stunningly smooth, malty, rich teas cultivated in China’s coldest, northernmost growing region.
 
Grown using old-school organic farming techniques on the rocky foothills of Laoshan, protected by ocean mist and fed by sweet spring water.
    • DATE OF PICKINGMarch 2025
    • Laoshan VillageShandong Province
    • ELEVATIONSEA LEVEL
    • Longjing QuntiTea Varietal

    Mr. He’s daughter Qingqing, co-owner of Verdant Tea, pioneered this finishing style with her father. She loves the long delicate twisting technique for the way the leaves dance in a glass pitcher as they unfold yielding a delicate nuanced brew that lasts over multiple steepings. The hand pulled and twisted finish on this early shade-grown reserve harvest shows off the delicate deep-green buds that the family picks with so much care, cultivating with sustainable chemical free farming, and fed by sweet mountain spring water.

  • true
    70
    tamarind, dried lychee
    true
    90
    pine, bok choi
    true
    70
    cardamom
    true
    40
    peony
    false
    true
    ringing, mineral-laden

    Tasting Profile

    • fruit - tamarind, dried lychee
    • vegetal - pine, bok choi
    • spice - cardamom
    • floral - peony
    • texture - ringing, mineral-laden

The He Family also recommends:

Spring 2025 Update from the Fields

Cold weather in Laoshan means smaller yields, and a long season of shade-grown covered green tea before the protective greenhouse coverings come down. 

A very mild spring with very little rainfall has made for particularly concentrated creamy textural green tea and black tea. Cool weather persisted longer than usual, which kept protective shaded coverings on through April. This meant slow growth, but particularly tender sweet buds.

Not only is He Qingqing busy helping her parents finish this spring's fresh tea, but she and her husband are also celebrating the arrival of their son Liu Mu-Mu, just a few months old and already helping with the fresh Flat Pressed Laoshan Green.

Congratulations to the He Family for a wonderful spring season!

He Changke works with fresh leaves
fresh picked Laoshan tea buds
fresh 2025 Laoshan tea leaves
making Reserve Laoshan Biluochun green
brewing fresh Laoshan green tea
spring 2025 Laoshan tea plants

photos courtesy of He Qingqing, March 2025

  • 'Thankfully 2019-2020 was a mild winter compared to the last two years, meaning that the plants in China’s northernmost tea growing region did not suffer frost damage. The He Family's plants have been able to recover, and this new recovery growth has been rich and tender, a boon for the He Family after so many difficult years.'

  • 5
    6-8
    175
    20 seconds
    10
    5
    6
    175
    5 seconds
    4
    5
    12
    76
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    5 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 175° watersteep 20 secondsresteep many times
    add 10 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 175° watersteep 5 seconds
    add 4 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

    5 g.12
    oz.
    use room temp. waterrefrigerate overnight
    8 hours
    add ice & enjoy

Product Photo Gallery

He Changke works with fresh leaves
fresh picked Laoshan tea buds
fresh 2025 Laoshan tea leaves
making Reserve Laoshan Biluochun green
brewing fresh Laoshan green tea
spring 2025 Laoshan tea plants

photos courtesy of He Qingqing, March 2025

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