- Organic Longjing Green Tea, Loose Leaf, 1st Harvest, 3oz | USDA certified. Hangzhou, Ming Qian: chestnut & sweet rice aroma. Hand-crafted, pan-fired. Spent leaves edible. Premium tea.

Like the quality, taste and smell. Pricey in comparison to tea you get at the store.

Tea is not too bad, the flavor is a bit light for my taste, maybe it’s because of the new tender leaves. Still, it’s a bit too expensive IMO.

Doesn’t taste as good as others from china directly of this type and sourcing, esoecuslly for the price.

Muy buen Te

Longjing tea, which translates to Dragon Well tea, is a variety of pan-roasted green tea from the area of Longjing Village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It is produced mostly by hand and renowned for its high quality. Longjing tea is known as one of China's most prestigious teas. If you are familiar with Longjing tea, you will know that it is a high quality tea with a premium price. Although this brand is more expensive, I think you will notice the difference between the first grade dragon well tea and other types of dragon well. The prices depend on the variety of tea you are buying. Longjing is divided into six grades: Superior and then 1 down to 5. I couldn't find anything on the grading, but the price should indicate high quality. This bag had well preserved leaves that were not crushed, and it had a rich, earthy aroma. The tea has a sort of nutty sweet taste, that is very smooth if it is brewed correctly. The bag was well sealed and came with a little plastic clip to keep the bag fresh. If you have been on the lookout for an authentic Dragon Well tea, your search might end here.

not top quality tea

The strength of the leaves were very weak necessitating the use of 4X more product

I like a good dragon well tea and have been spoiled by several coworkers that visit China and bring back some excellent samples for me to try. Lung ching, or long jing, is a famous green tea from China and is named after the Dragon’s Well landmark in the West Lake area of the Zhejiang Province (credit to Arbor Teas. This tea, like all other dragon well teas, is a flatter leafy looking tea that is mainly green in color (ranging from a lighter green to deeper greens) and sometimes has hints yellows or gold. This particular tea has some good lighter green colors to it and has a nice smooth pleasant aroma. Tghe tea leaves come packaged in a vacuum sealed foil bag that is then inside a cardboard tube. Also in the tube is a clamp to seal the foil back after you open it. I steeped this tea for 30-60 seconds at first and ended up with a very light yellow tea with soft and mild flavors. I then increased my time to a few minutes for the second steep and was rewarded with a richer color and flavor to the tea that was more to what I was expecting. To be fair, my first time making this tea, I could have used more leaves but didn’t due to trying a smaller cup. After that, I learned to use more leaves and a slightly longer steep time as this tea seems to need a little more time to open up and really adding presence and body to your tea. For water, I used my instant hot water tap at fist which gives me anywhere from 180-190 degree water and it turned out great (not bitter, not dry, but just right). The tea has some nice sweeter vegetal tones with a hint of grassiness and overall a lighter flavor. I like that you can easily change the steep time to get more or less flavor to make it as light or “bold” as you’d like, and the tea itself seems to be relatively forgiving and not picky about the steep. Overall, this is a good dragon well tea. I have had better, but I’m guessing you’d be hard pressed to find any of those on Amazon as they mostly came directly from China when my coworkers would visit family. That said, this is still a good dragon well tea, albeit a bit expensive and you can likely spend half to a third of this price and get a suitably enjoyable tea, although maybe not this smooth or delicate in flavor.