Dragon Well Green Tea (Long Jing)

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Butter, Cashew, Creamy, Dry Grass, Grass, Nuts, Peas, Smooth, Soybean, Sweet, Thick, Vegetal, Spinach, Vegetables, Umami, Bitter
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
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Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 30 sec 4 g 14 oz / 426 ml

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  • “Thanks to Teavivre for a sample of this tea! I haven’t tried too many dragon wells yet, so am happy for the opportunity to try out another one and see how it compares! The aroma of the brewed tea...” Read full tasting note
  • “Tea sample provided by Teavivre for review Follow up to my last tasting note on this tea Today my first to the third steeps were lovely, and the fourth was ok but not as enjoyable. Not bitter at...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Thank you Angel and Teavivre for this generous sample I enjoyed the first steep of this tea the best. It was a tad softer and had a more elegant appeal. The 2nd and 3rd brew brought on a stronger...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This sample was generously sent along by Angel from Teavivre – thank you! This is the first dragon well I have tried. The liquour was so light I was afraid I hadn’t used enough leaf (I might not...” Read full tasting note
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From Teavivre

Origin: Longwu, Xihu, Zhejiang, China

Ingredients: Flattened tea leaves, with one bud and one or two leaves

Taste: A subtle, rich, orchid like taste and aroma, with no hint of bitterness

Brew: 1-2 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 176 ºF (80 ºC) for 1 to 2 minutes (exact time depends on your taste – a longer time will give the tea a stronger taste and color)

Health Benefits: TeaVivre’s XiHu Long Jing, have high levels of antioxidants and other natural chemicals that reputedly help reduce the incidence of cancer, promote good skin tone and help reduce the affects of aging. Also high in vitamin C, fluoride and calcium, they also promote healthy teeth and bones. Long Jing tea is also widely renowned in China as a good tea to help calm the mind, cheer you up and clear your thinking.

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28 Tasting Notes

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2 tasting notes

It tastes better than a puddle of water, and is pleasing to my pigeon palate. My crop feels slightly stimulated by it.

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18 tasting notes

First time trying Dragon Well. I started off with 2 grams of leaves to 4 oz of water. Steeped for 30 seconds using 175 degree water. The wet leaves smelled vaguely sweet and a little spinach-y. The tea itself had a light yellowish green color and also tasted spinach-y. A little bit astringent at the back of my throat. A second steeping, the spinach flavor went down and the astringency went up. Somehow, I don’t think I’m brewing this right.

So far, I’m not digging it. I like my greens to be either more sweet or more bitter and this tea is neither. Since this is my first time trying it, I’ll try out different ratios/steep times.

The wet leaves are beautiful, however. They look like fresh leaves that have just been plucked. You can tell this is a high quality tea.

Flavors: Spinach, Vegetables

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec 2 g 4 OZ / 118 ML
Kirkoneill1988

I had to redo this comment. Silly typos. Anyhow I like uptons dragonwell. Quite sweet to me. I got some on the way from yunnan sourcing

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253 tasting notes

Dry leaf: very long leaves with a nice green color

Liquor: greenish yellow

2 infusions (5s, 10s): Nothing much to say about this. Didn’t find any special flavors/notes. Just good green tea!

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 5 g 4 OZ / 118 ML

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1737 tasting notes

Looking more closely at the dried leaves of this lower-tier Long Jing from Teavivre, I realized that it resembles Bancha physically! Kind of disheveled and haphazard—not the “fine china serve to guests” Long Jing, but the “I need Long Jing—now” kind.

It tastes good. I drank this two-glass tetsubin after a first meal of the day (MOD) at about 3pm, having slept in past noon. Today’s culinary discovery was yet another excellent surface for Nutella: split and toasted Ciabatta!

Who am I kidding? Every surface, up to and including that of a spoon, is perfect for Nutella. ;-)

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 45 sec 4 g 16 OZ / 473 ML
Cheri

I like Nutella in oatmeal, with ice cream, and on Ritz crackers.

Kirkoneill1988

i forget how much i liked it lol

yyz

My cousin had a party where she made dessert pizzas in a bread oven spread with Nutella marshmallows and topped with fresh strawberries after baking.

sherapop

OMG yyz!

sherapop

Cheri, I never tried the oatmeal idea. Hmmm…. mmmmm…

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1118 tasting notes

I had some extra time this afternoon to relax with tea, so I thought it would be a good time to try a tea I knew would be good for several steeps. I chose this one because I loved the idea of something lighter and spring-y.

The first steep had strong vegetal flavors and a buttery smoothness that was highly enjoyable. There was a little dryness on the back of my throat, but it was very mild. The second steep had fewer vegetal notes and many more buttery ones. No astringency at all. The third steep was very soft with a light sweetness and something almost floral but not. I enjoyed this steep a lot. The fourth steep brought back a bit of the buttery, smooth notes, but other than that it was fairly weak.

The second and third steeps were my favorites, but I thoroughly enjoyed this tea from start to finish. Thank you Angel and Teavivire for the chance to try this tea!

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 30 sec 1 tsp 6 OZ / 177 ML

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2145 tasting notes

Tea #14 from Considering a new TTB
Out of all of the green teas I’ve had an opportunity to sample I’ve somehow manage to mostly bypass dragon well. I’m not sure how that is, but I’ve only had it a small handful of times and none of those times have been particularly recent. Normally when it comes to TeaVivre teas I sit down and enjoy them gongfu style, but this morning I’m suffering from a major lack of sleep and opted for western style since I was in a bit of a hurry for a hit of caffeine. This is a wonderful tea, it’s slightly vegetal and has a slightly buttery texture to it. The only thing that keeps this from my regular rotation of teas is the lack of sweetness, I tend to prefer naturally sweet greens over the more vegetal varieties.

This tea will not be continuing on, there was only a sample size in the box.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 1 min, 0 sec 16 OZ / 473 ML

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987 tasting notes

A sample from my first-ever order from Teavivre. Thanks, Angel! I’m sure there will be more.

I’ve never had a Dragon Well tea before, but I’ve often wanted to try. I’m going to hold off on a rating for now, because I want to see how the second steep goes. Anyways:

Dry Leaf: The leaves are long, flat, and thin, like feathers, and are a beautiful grass green. The smell is kind of like seaweed, though I do see what others mean when they mention buttered vegetables.

Steeping parameters: 3 tsp of leaf to 24 oz of water, 85°C, for 2 minutes. I think that was the problem – I think I should have steeped it for 3. Next time, though.

Liquor: A lovely light yellow-green that shades down to light amber as the tea sits in the cup. The wet leaf smelled surprisingly sweet and grassy (rather reminiscent of my Shincha Kuro from Capital Tea Ltd), and this transferred over to the taste. The taste is part seaweed, part sugar snap pea. Unfortunately, I think I understeeped this. I think I really should have gone for a steep of 3 minutes rather than 2. I’ll report back once I steep it properly.

Verdict: I like it, but I don’t want to give it a rating yet – I really need to see how this tastes with a 3 minute steep.

EDIT: I steeped the same leaves again once I got back home, and did an extra-long steep of 4 minutes. Unfortunately, the tea still tasted rather weak. Kind of sweet and hay-like, but nothing that really wowed me. However, I still have at least half of the sample left, so we’ll see if I can get it to work the next time I try.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 2 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 24 OZ / 709 ML
gmathis

Long jings (my brain always says “green jeans” when I type that) are, I think, my favorite variety of green teas.

Christina / BooksandTea

Did you see that Teavivre’s doing a big sale right now, including 2 varieties of Long Jing? Looks like they’re trying to sell out old remaining stock before the spring harvest starts.

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56 tasting notes

used ~1.5 teaspoons tea, in a 75 ml (2.5 oz) gaiwan, with ~170* water, brewed for:
rinse,20s,35s,70s,120s. as per website instructions.
First infusion: slightly astringent. has a weird flavor. hmmm… Not sure I like this one yet.
second infusion: weird flavor is leaving, now its taking on an orchid like taste (like tgy).
third infusion was better as well. Not sure I like it or not. may have to have it a few more times to decide.
fourth tastes much better. :)

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C

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