Dragon Tea

5.0 out of 36 Reviews

Price range: $29.00 through $97.00

ABOUT THE BLEND

Experience Dragon Well — Longjing — the most celebrated name in Chinese green tea, cultivated on the misty hillsides ringing West Lake in Hangzhou, a landscape so beloved that Chinese poets spent a thousand years running out of words for it. The tea takes its name from a real place: an ancient well in Longjing village, where legend held that a dragon dwelt in the depths — and where, after rain, the mingling waters still swirl at the surface as if something stirred below. Distinguished by its flat, smooth, sword-shaped leaves — pressed by hand against the hot wok until they gleam like little jade blades — this is the tea by which all other Chinese greens are measured.

Our Dragon Well is picked in the first days of spring, one tender bud and leaf at a time, when the earliest lots are dated and prized like vintages. What awaits in the glass is what tradition calls the tea’s four wonders: emerald color, an orchid-fresh fragrance, a beautiful leaf, and above all that signature taste — toasty roasted chestnut melting into a soft, sweet finish that lingers long after the cup is empty. One sip explains a millennium of devotion.

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