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“Spring 2024: Wow! The small leaves smell wonderful and are very nice in appearance, mostly in obvious bud/leaf sets. First steep is very light in color and fragrant. Nice and sweet and deceptively...” Read full tasting note
“Bao Hong” tea is from Yi Liang county of Yunnan. It’s leaf is quite small and it carries a high level of aroma. The leaves are always picked when very small and fresh during a two hour window of time in the early morning of mid-February. The aroma is intense and fresh. It was first grown in the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907) at the same time a Buddhist Monastery was built on Bao Hong Mountain. The original tea plant was brought by a visiting monk from Fujian. This tea has been growing on Bao Hong Mountain since that time (over 1200 years ago).
Yi Liang county has a very moderate climate with a mean daily temperature of 16.3 degrees celsius, and an average yearly rainfall of about 950 centimeters. The Bao Hong Mountain tea garden is an average of 1550-1630 meters above sea level, where it is often shrouded in mist diffusing the sunlight just enough to create a perfect light balance. Bao Hong mountain is remote area of Yunnan where the tea plants enjoy a natural un-adulterated environment.
The tea itself is full and plump but small. It has a high level of fragrance and the tea soup is thick and awash with the little hairs that grow on the tea leaves.
Comparable in many aspects to a Dragon Well, but unique in its own right.
Keywords: Dragonwell
Harvested: Late-February
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Tea & WhiskSpring 2024: Wow! The small leaves smell wonderful and are very nice in appearance, mostly in obvious bud/leaf sets.
First steep is very light in color and fragrant. Nice and sweet and deceptively light. I like them like this! Lots of little “hairs” from the young buds in cup, and you get that nice “green chestnut” flavor. Some florals are present, perhaps along the lines of osmanthus.
Subsequent steep at three minutes is a bit more yellow and robust.
I’m not super experienced with dragonwell teas, and certainly I am not an expert on authentic ones from the Westlake area. But I imagine a tea of similar quality to this would cost much more if it came from the region. So in that sense, I guess this tea is a pretty good deal. But it is on the pricey side.
