Thanks to Teavivre for the sample! I think I’ve tried and enjoyed this tea before, though it’s impossible to find my note in the huge list of reviews. I wish they’d put the most recent ones at the top so we don’t automatically see things written twelve years ago! I steeped 2.5 g of leaf in 250 ml of 185F water for 3 minutes, refilling the cup as needed.
The dry aroma is of chestnuts, butter, artichokes, and green beans. The first steep has notes of chestnut, butter, light roast, artichoke, spinach, and green beans. The next few steeps are sweet and nutty with artichoke and asparagus. The tea is smooth, nutty, and sweet, and the vegetal notes don’t take over until the final steeps. I get green beans, lettuce, and grass at the end of the session.
As expected, this is a much nicer longjing than Teavivre’s basic version. It’s nutty and smooth, without the vegetal bitterness of lower-quality dragonwell. The only thing I miss is the florality that sometimes features in this type of tea.
Flavors: Artichoke, Asparagus, Butter, Chestnut, Grass, Green Beans, Lettuce, Nutty, Roasted, Smooth, Spinach, Sweet, Vegetal
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Ooh, you’re making me crave dragonwell!
It’s a nice tea to bowl steep in hot weather. I also have a lot of longjing right now. I’m doing a comparison of four dragonwells from three vendors and will be posting the notes this week.
Dunno if your green tea hunt is still on but Daxue Jiadao just sent out an email about their green tea release. That and W2T (already passed tho) are my suggestions if you’re looking for top greens accessible to us Westerners. Sweetest Dew’s mao feng was excellent previous years, though it looks like only one is up right now. I did not think much of the Taiping hou kui and the other not mao feng green I bought from him last year
Thanks! I saw that green tea release from Daxue Jiadao and am tempted, even though I have plenty of green tea left. Have you tried these teas? The TPHK I had recently was very subtle. Is that true for these Anhui greens as well?
I haven’t, but heard good things about the previous years. Subtle could be water or the tea, you can try upping brew temps to start, but most average (Chinese) greens can’t handle it
Ooh, you’re making me crave dragonwell!
It’s a nice tea to bowl steep in hot weather. I also have a lot of longjing right now. I’m doing a comparison of four dragonwells from three vendors and will be posting the notes this week.
Dunno if your green tea hunt is still on but Daxue Jiadao just sent out an email about their green tea release. That and W2T (already passed tho) are my suggestions if you’re looking for top greens accessible to us Westerners. Sweetest Dew’s mao feng was excellent previous years, though it looks like only one is up right now. I did not think much of the Taiping hou kui and the other not mao feng green I bought from him last year
Thanks! I saw that green tea release from Daxue Jiadao and am tempted, even though I have plenty of green tea left. Have you tried these teas? The TPHK I had recently was very subtle. Is that true for these Anhui greens as well?
I haven’t, but heard good things about the previous years. Subtle could be water or the tea, you can try upping brew temps to start, but most average (Chinese) greens can’t handle it