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2024 Shi Feng Dragonwell

2024 Shi Feng Dragonwell

This 2024 Spring harvest is available for pre-order! ETA: end of April 2024
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China’s most famous
iconic green tea
Li Xiaoping is proud to share one of the only examples of true Shi Feng Dragonwell out there - a stunning illustration of the crisp minerality that makes Dragonwell famous. Notes of cucumber, pine, jasmine, and brown sugar.
Li Xiaoping is proud to share one of the only examples of true Shi Feng Dragonwell out there - a stunning illustration of the crisp minerality that makes Dragonwell famous. Picking soon + available for pre-order!
ETA: end of April ♦ Shi Feng, Dragonwell
March 28th, 2023 ♦ Shi Feng, Dragonwell
China’s most famous
iconic green tea
Li Xiaoping is proud to share one of the only examples of true Shi Feng Dragonwell out there - a stunning illustration of the crisp minerality that makes Dragonwell famous. Notes of cucumber, pine, jasmine, and brown sugar.
Li Xiaoping is proud to share one of the only examples of true Shi Feng Dragonwell out there - a stunning illustration of the crisp minerality that makes Dragonwell famous. Picking soon + available for pre-order!
ETA: end of April ♦ Shi Feng, Dragonwell
March 28th, 2023 ♦ 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 PICKINGPre-QingMing 2024
    • Longjing VillageZhejiang Province
    • ELEVATION300 meters
    • longjing quntiTea Varietal

    Li Xiaoping grows this true Dragonwell cultivar on a perfectly-shaded mountainside in the tiny and sought-after Shi Feng microclimate- a uniquely situated spot with sweet mountain springs, quartz-heavy rocky soil, and mist. Li Xiaoping is a celebrated community leader for her advocacy in sustainable farming and working to protect the Shi Feng region, and her tea is recognized across the world as one of the few true Dragonwell expressions out there, capturing deep minerality, persistent sweetness, and complex aromatics.

  • true
    70
    brown sugar
    true
    85
    cucumber, matcha
    true
    60
    pine, licorice
    true
    60
    jasmine
    true
    70
    green apple
    true
    juicy

    Tasting Profile

    • savory - brown sugar
    • vegetal - cucumber, matcha
    • spice - pine, licorice
    • floral - jasmine
    • fruit - green apple
    • texture - juicy

Li Xiaoping also recommends:


  • "Typically, the prized pre-Qingming picking doesn’t happen until mid to late March, so this year's harvests mark an incredible year, with unique weather that Li Xiaoping says made for sweet, rich, aromatic tea."

photos courtesy of Li Xiaoping, March 2022

  • 4
    6-8
    175
    30 seconds
    15
    4
    6
    175
    8 seconds
    5
    4
    12
    room temp
    8 hours

    Steeping Instructions

    Western

    4 g.6-8
    oz.
    use 175° watersteep 30 secondsresteep many times
    add 15 sec. each infusion

    Gongfu

    4 g.6 ozuse 175° watersteep 8 seconds
    add 5 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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