Description

A fine variety of one of China s most popular teas. When brewed, it yields a delicate, smoothly fresh taste with an invitingly sweet aroma. Our Long Jing is carefully picked in the early spring. Its leaves have a distinguished shape: they a broad and flat with a golden sheen, resulting from a laborious drying process.

Dragonwell, Long Jing in Chinese, is sometimes called the national tea of China. It tends to be at the top of any list of China s best teas, and was declared a tea to be sent as tribute to the emperor himself in the eighteenth century. It is extremely popular in China, and has earned great respect throughout the world.