Discontinued. Similar tea available.
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“This tea was a gift from my well-meaning sister-in-law so I’m going to give it a try. I have NOT had good experience with Chinese greens in the past. Sure, there have been one or two that I’ve...” Read full tasting note
“I just learned the basics of how to taste tea correctly and I must say that it has improved the taste of my tea! Dragonwell has a grassy flavor, but is very fine. It also has a light sweet...” Read full tasting note
This legendary green tea is a top ten tea in China hailing from the Zhejiang Province. Follow the famed crooked river on your trip through Zheijian and steep in carefully handmade flat jade green leaves that create a mellow-sweet taste with chestnut overtones. Natural sweetness from the jade green leaf establishes a complex palette in this renowed sweet nutty tea. IMPERIAL RESERVE
Lightly sweet with a smooth texture and hint of lingering chestnut.
How to Prepare:
Use 1 teaspoon of tea per 8oz of water. Heat water to 175-180 degrees and steep tea for 1.5-2 minutes. 2oz of tea equals 25-30 teaspoons.
Ingredients: Pure, organic green tea.
Definitely one of my top ranking green teas. I love the flavor of this tea because its a simple press dried green tea, that really brings out the acidity of green tea, which I love. In drinking I noticed earthy flavor, as well as an extraordinary crispness that can only really be found in a green tea. For me its the Ultimate Basic Green Tea.
This is my everyday green. The taste is great: I have served it to people who claim not to like green teas and they found it agreeable. Personally I get a rubbery bouquet, but the taste is what keeps me coming back…vegetal and buttery, with a finish of natural honey sweetness. I don’t add honey or any sweetener; it just finishes with a sweet note on my palate. I drink this almost everyday, and it travels well. I started bringing one of those pill boxes that is split up into days of the week, and put one scoop of tea in each day. Then I just dump it into my travel strainer mug.
As advertised, it has the flavors describes with as much potential now with the prices low enough to buy in bulk quantities! As usual, I got a sample of this so called “Dragonwell” and practically fell in love with the flavor as I am quite a fan of all things nutty and vegetal! I brewed it in the usual 180 degree(maybe 175) for the usual minute or two, the first steep was alright of course but when it comes to the second or third its plain mute and tannic:( I suspect for this tea sold for 10$ per 2oz is expected for its appealing price than the usual 18 dollar per 2oz “quality” (not that it would make a difference)! The tea is honestly above average compared to any brand name teabags in the markets, but downsides of a soon to be uber priced and nonrenewable tea is certainly not making its way into my pantry anytime soon!
So my order came in today of Teavana teas and this is my first cup I decided to make from the five types I have ordered. What peaked my interest was the fact it is green tea. I have never had a good green tea that was green tea alone…
This is mild, yet somewhat of a vegetable taste to it. A little sweet as well!
When I brought home this Dragonwell, I put it into a tea tin which had previously been home to Teavana’s “Blackberry Mojito”. Despite the tin being made of metal, the scent of blackberry was still lingering.
Now my Dragonwell has a hint of blackberry.
I am not complaining.
This green is only alright. It may be the particular batch I got, but this is too “earthy” for me (and I typically love earthy), to the point of almost being skunky. I’ll use it if I’m out of a better green, but it isn’t near my first choice.
