Special Reserve Green Tea
2 oz (57g) for $22.00, makes 60+ cups
Ingredients: Organic Loose Leaf Green Tea Leaves
Name: Special Reserve Green Tea 高山绿茶
Cultivar: Mei Zhan and Huang Dan
This Special Reserve Green Tea is wild harvested from an abandoned tea farm in the southern Fujian Mountains, near the farm of Shang's friend. Known for its especially rich ecosystem, this region is also the same area that yields the porcelain used in our porcelain teaware. Harvested from the elegant Mei Zhan cultivar, which is normally used to make the Oriental Beauty Wu-Long Tea, Shang applied our green tea processing style with an outstanding result. This green tea is crisp, refreshing and smooth-bodied with a vegetal quality and buttery undertone. What really sets our Special Reserve Green Tea apart from other green teas is its clean finish and lingering sweetness with no bitterness or astringency.
Aroma of parsley and cut grass.
Opulent green kale flavor with meyer lemon high note.
Buttery mouthfeel.
Harvest
First Flush
In a wild growing section of southern Fujian Province, the bud and young leaves of the Mei Zhan plants are picked in early spring while still tender. The aroma and fragrance that this pristine ecosystem yields is incredible and shows up in this delicious tea.
Processing
The tea leaves are spread on cloth to wither for a few hours immediately after they are harvested. When they become soft enough, they are loosely rolled and then spread out to cool down for one or two hours. After they have cooled, the leaves are dried in an oven at around 150 F to lower the moisture content to under 7%.
