Longjing Shi Feng
Dragonwell
Grade AA
2013 Pre-Qing Ming

Our 2013 Longjing Shi Feng Dragonwell Grade AA is extremely flavorful. We are thrilled to offer this lush, sweet, classic Longjing.

Shi Feng Longjings are appreciated for their harmonious and rich character. They are perhaps the most well known Longjing from the authentic tea harvesting areas of West Lake (Xi Hu ). Different Longjings offer specific flavor profiles due to the influences particular to the micro-climates (terroir) that exist in the harvesting areas and the time of the pluck.

While Pre-Qing Ming Longjings are in increasingly tight demand by East Asians and Westerners alike, the first of the season early plucks are scooped up quickly by discerning tea drinkers at the beginning of the tea season.

Our Grade AA Longjing is comprised of a two-leaves-and-a-bud-pluck, which gives this tea a rich ’ juicy’ texture and good mouth feel. It is soft, toasty and slightly yeasty in flavor with a hint of chestnut in the after-taste. It fulfills our wish for a traditional Longjing that offers an accessible price and toasty, forthright flavor that appeal to the Western palate.

The origin of authentic Longjing is the West Lake ( Xi Hu region ) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Longjing is a protected tea ( protected against counterfeit ‘Longjing’ tea cultivated and manufacture in other places in China, or from other tea producing countries ) and can only legimately come from one of the places located within the National Designated Protected Zone. (Our Longjing is ‘authentic Longjing’ which means that the tea is made from Longjing #43 tea bushes. )

This zone is a scant 168 kilometers in area, and all Longjing tea manufactured there is sold under the name of the region or village where the tea was plucked. The original production zones were named Lion, Dragon, Cloud (Meijiawu Village), Tiger, and Plum.

Today, the names have changed, but the most important harvesting areas for production of authentic Longjing in the Xi Hu region are the same: Shi-feng Shan; Longjing Village; Meijiawu Village; Weng-jia Shan.

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