High-altitude growing slows the tea plant's development, concentrating flavor into each small bud in ways that lower-elevation gardens rarely achieve. Hunan province, long celebrated for its green teas, produces this single-bud pluck from mountain gardens where cooler temperatures and morning mist shape the leaf's character. The result is a clean, delicate cup with a natural sweetness and the kind of quiet complexity that rewards a slow afternoon. For those who already enjoy our Lung Ching, this offers a different angle on fine Chinese green tea: less nutty and vegetal, more focused on the pure, gentle sweetness of a carefully harvested bud.
Green tea.
2 Briskness
2 Body
3 Aroma
Details: Grown at 3,000 feet in China's Hunan Province, this green tea offers a clean, high-altitude character rarely found in everyday green teas. A quietly distinctive cup for those who like their greens bright and unfussy.
Dry Leaves: Long, thin yellowish green leaves.
Liquor: Pale green.
Aroma: Fresh steamed greens with a sharp, vegetal edge, like artichoke hearts lifted from the pot while still warm.
Flavors: Gently savory at first, with a soft grassiness that gives way to a smooth and light cup, with none of the bite the aroma hints at.
High-altitude growing slows the tea plant's development, concentrating flavor into each small bud in ways that lower-elevation gardens rarely achieve. Hunan province, long celebrated for its green teas, produces this single-bud pluck from mountain gardens where cooler temperatures and morning mist shape the leaf's character. The result is a clean, delicate cup with a natural sweetness and the kind of quiet complexity that rewards a slow afternoon. For those who already enjoy our Lung Ching, this offers a different angle on fine Chinese green tea: less nutty and vegetal, more focused on the pure, gentle sweetness of a carefully harvested bud.
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