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2024 1st Picking Shi Feng Dragonwell

2024 1st Picking Shi Feng Dragonwell

This 2024 Spring harvest is available for pre-order! ETA: end of April 2024
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Genre-Defining Green Tea
Deep, powerful mineral-driven texture-focused buddy tea from Li Xiaoping’s famous plot in Shi Feng, made entirely from buds. Notes of sweet mint, osmanthus, melon and sesame with velvety texture.
Deep, powerful mineral-driven texture-focused buddy tea from Li Xiaoping’s famous plot in Shi Feng, made entirely from buds. Now picking + available for pre-order!
ETA: end of April ♦ Shi Feng, Dragonwell
Genre-Defining Green Tea
Deep, powerful mineral-driven texture-focused buddy tea from Li Xiaoping’s famous plot in Shi Feng, made entirely from buds. Notes of sweet mint, osmanthus, melon and sesame with velvety texture.
Deep, powerful mineral-driven texture-focused buddy tea from Li Xiaoping’s famous plot in Shi Feng, made entirely from buds. Now picking + available for pre-order!
ETA: end of April ♦ Shi Feng, Dragonwell
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PRE-ORDER new 2024 HARVEST

This year's fresh 2024 harvest is being picked by Li Xiaoping in Dragonwell and is now available to reserve with a pre-order.

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

Crafted by Mrs. Li

Li Xiaoping is an award-winning, respected community leader growing true Dragonwell in the tiny coveted Shi Feng (Lion’s Peak) micro-region with over fifty years experience.
 
Her tea is fed by volcanic mountain springs, shaded by bamboo and evergreens, and grown using organic techniques, hand-picked and hand finished on a wok.
 
    • DATE OF PICKINGMarch 2024
    • Longjing VillageZhejiang Province
    • ELEVATION300 meters
    • Longjing QuntiTea Varietal

    This early spring tea is all about a fine and subtle sweetness, and a long, drawn out aftertaste and crisp texture. Cool spring weather produces a small harvest of truly sweet tea. This is Mrs. Li’s first picking of the season, carefully hand-finished by her husband, Shui Huamin. Her true original cultivar Dragonwell (Longjing Qunti) grows on the mountain slopes of Shi Feng and draws in sweet mountain spring water.

  • true
    80
    sweet mint, rosemary
    true
    70
    osmanthus
    true
    90
    banana, papaya, melon
    true
    65
    star anise
    true
    70
    black sesame, whipped cream
    true
    velvety, mouth-watering

    Tasting Profile

    • vegetal - sweet mint, rosemary
    • floral - osmanthus
    • fruit - banana, papaya, melon
    • spice - star anise
    • savory - black sesame, whipped cream
    • texture - velvety, mouth-watering
  • 'Shi Feng actually cultivates two distinct varietals of tea. The first is called Longjing Qunti, which is referred to by locals as lao shu, or old tree varietal. This is the classic and original Dragonwell, the same kind of tea tasted and recognized by Emperor Qianlong that propelled the region to fame.'


Li Xiaoping also recommends:

  • 4
    6-8
    175
    20 seconds
    10
    5
    6
    175
    10 seconds
    2
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

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

    Gongfu

    5 g.6 ozuse 175° watersteep 10 seconds
    add 2 sec. per steeping
    enjoy many steepings

    Iced/Cold

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

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