Organic Superfine Dragon Well Long Jing Green Tea

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Artichoke, Bitter, Butter, Chestnut, Grass, Green Beans, Herbaceous, Mineral, Nutty, Orchid, Spinach, Sweet Corn, Vegetal, Asparagus, Citrus, Cream, Floral, Lettuce, Earth, Green, Honey, Fruity, Peach, Stonefruit, Sweet, Corn Husk, Sugarcane, Sweet, Warm Grass, Roasted Nuts, Spices, Umami, Nuts, Creamy, Flowers, Almond, Walnut, Mint, Squash Blossom, Peas, Popcorn
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by TeaVivre
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 10 oz / 284 ml

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  • “Time for my green tea after dinner tea plan! Since my white Silver Needle Jasmine tasted better with more leaf, I decided to put in about a teaspoon more leaf than I normally do. Whoah! It smells...” Read full tasting note
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  • “So I steeped this up and set it on my desk while listening to Emmylou Harris. She is the voice of the angels, or at least I think so. Strange I would think this seeing how most of my music is ’70’s...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Thanks once again to Angel & Teavivre for this sample. I put the entire sample into my testtube steeper, & steeped 15/30/oops! I got distracted & let this one go way too long/back to...” Read full tasting note
  • “This is an exceptional Dragon Well. I enjoy Dragon Well anyway, but, this one kicks it up a notch. The flavor is so crisp and clean. Vibrant. You can really taste the quality it this. Sweet and...” Read full tasting note
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From Teavivre

Origin: Tianmu Mountain(天目山), Lin’an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China

Ingredients: One bud with one or two leaves

Taste: Fresh aroma with chestnut flavor

Brew: 1-2 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 176ºF (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: Dragon well long jing tea can refresh minds, brace spirit, help you think, remove fatigue, improve your work efficiency. It also has fluorine, which helps protect your teeth from acid corrosion and decay by bonding with calcium in teeth.

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155 Tasting Notes

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676 tasting notes

I struggled with this one a lot. Couldn’t coax out the flavor I wanted despite multiple efforts at brewing it. Brisk and vegetal with a nutty green bean taste. Borders on astringent at times but doesn’t become bitter. The nuttiness becomes dominant as it steeps and it also presents toasted grain and fried vegetables along the way instead of the more subtle grass and water chestnut notes in the aroma.

Not the best dragonwell I’ve ever had but certainly not the worst either. It’s possible that something was lost due to the shipment delay.

Flavors: Nutty, Vegetal

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C

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20 tasting notes

I didn’t enjoy it for some reason. Ho sentito solo l’amaro. Non ho notato aromi particolari tranne l’odore d’erba.

Gaiwan : rinse, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s

Flavors: Bitter, Grass

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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226 tasting notes

This tea seems to be universally loved so I will be a contrarian in my review: I did not like it that much. I prepared it western style. The wet leaf aroma was very good: grass, spice, some hints of green vegetables and butter.

The taste story was altogether different. It is a finicky tea: my first steep proved to be too long or hot and it resulted in a very grassy and bitter product. The other steep proved to be too short so the tatse was rather bland. Only my third steep hit the fine balance and I did get all of that combination of grass, restrained bitterness and creaminess. The aftertaste was long and rather pleasant for those who prefer it quite astringent.

However, even when you hit the elusive balance of time, temperature and leaf amount you get a representative but not a particularly complex Long Jing. Aside from its wet leaf aroma nothing really was that impressive to me.

On the other hand, this tea is already 9 months old and I am not much into green teas in general, so you may want to take my review with a sizable grain of salt.

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9/23/18

I have found that I really enjoy green tea, and my roommate had this tea laying around in our apartment. It has been given to her by her mom a month prior, and she had yet to try it. I decided to make each of us a cup in the afternoon. I really liked the soothing flavor of this tea. It had a very fresh, earthy, green taste. This is a tea that I would love to make in the spring. I think that this tea would also taste great iced, which I may try next time. I might buy some of this tea for my own, because it was very comforting and I enjoyed it a lot.

Flavors: Earth, Green

Preparation
2 min, 0 sec 4 g 10 OZ / 295 ML

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62 tasting notes

2018- I can only compare this tea to the highest quality she feng offered by seven cups as of this writing. These tea leaves are enormous in comparison. There is a watery honey taste but nothing nutty, tho somewhat savory. While this is probably a drastic comparison, I do think there must be something affordable that is better than this tea. That being said, this tea is not trash.

Flavors: Honey

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Sample from Angel Thank you!

I had gongfu’d this on Sunday and finished the session before work yesterday morning. I first noted that the tea was bitter; however, after realizing that my water temperature was still at 195 F after the sheng I had brewed, I switched the temperature to 165 F. After a couple of steeps with the new temp, the leaf had managed to change. There were grassy & buttery notes, with a touch of astringency. I got to about 9-10 steeps before giving up. At that point, I was pushing the tea, but it was pretty much hot water with a touch of flavor. I had enjoyed this once I realized the mistake with the water temperature.

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2955 tasting notes

Thank you to Teavivre for providing me with some free samples! I brewed up a storm today with some friends and we really enjoyed it.

This tea has convinced me that I can definitely enjoy greens, because this is super fresh (I believe 2017 harvest) and tasted really high grade.

It had none of the astringency or bitterness I sometimes get from greens. While it had some vegetal traits, it was very sweet and fruity. Similar to peach but not any distinct fruit. Very smooth, rebrews well, although the second steep was a bit less fruity and more nutty vegetal.

Flavors: Fruity, Green, Peach, Stonefruit, Sweet, Vegetal

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 4 min, 30 sec 3 g 17 OZ / 500 ML
MrQuackers

Dragonwell is one of the great teas. It’s freshest at this time of year. (I’m waiting for some freshly picked green tea now)

TeaVivre

Yes, it’s harvested in 2017!

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1146 tasting notes

Thanks to Angel at Teavivre for the sample! I confess, it took me way too long to get around to this. I’m still struggling to find the right steeping time for my tastes. This leaf produces a hearty umami brew, but gets bitter easily if over-brewed. It reminds me a bit of dry roasted edamame.

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20 tasting notes

Writing about the 2016 spring harvest:

This is my first green tea from teavivre, and it didn’t disappoint. Delicious and subtle brew with very little bitterness at all. I was able to get a decent amount of steepings out of it as well. For the first 4 steepings, I followed the company’s website: 176 degree F water for 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s respectively. After that, I used slightly hotter water and with longer brew times as an experiment. It really drew out some of the more subtle notes, and since they were later steepings, I could not discern any bitterness. This is a very approachable tea, at least if brewed gong fu style!

Flavors: Corn Husk, Nutty, Sugarcane, Sweet, Warm Grass

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 4 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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4 tasting notes

Happily, the 2016 harvest is an improvement over last year. Last year it was a pretty good tea, but the packages I had from 2015 seemed overly toasted.
This year, the tea is fresh and balanced and very, very good. It is mildly nutty, sweet and smooth, with a hint of spice.
2016 harvest is recommended. My rating is very high because the quality to price ratio is fantastic.

Flavors: Roasted Nuts, Spices, Umami

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 2 min, 0 sec 9 g 16 OZ / 473 ML

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