Long Jing Nr. 433CL4 Harvest: 12.04.2023
Origin: China / Zhejiang / Xinchang / Luokengshan
Height: 600 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Long Jing Nr. 43
A Long Jing 43 Hao of very high quality near Xinchang in Zhejiang province. It is thus not from the original site of the Longjing. Original Longjing 43 from the Westlake (Xihu) are often rather too expensive. The new varietal Nr. 43 is mostly used to get an earlier harvest at the seasons start. The taste of the tea is more condensed, livelier than Longjing from traditional plants. The Nr. 43 plant highlights the idiosyncrasies of the Longjing in a beautiful fashion.The producer, who is known in his town as a tea freak, crazy for tea, owns vast tea gardens in the hills around Xinchang and produces a diversity of teas from diverse varietals in good quality.
Category:
Bian Xing Cha (incl. Long Jing) Bian Xing Cha, literally flat form tea, are green teas with pressed, flat leaves. Usually the bud and two leaves are plucked for this tea. The leaves' typical flat form comes from pressing the tea leaves against the hot wok's wall by hand, or by machine. For the most part, Bian Xing Cha are being sold as Long Jing. Genuine Long Jing come from the region around the Xi Hu (West-lake), in the west of Hangzhou (Zhejiang province) and are called Xi Hu Long Jing. Great quality teas come from the three villages Wengjiashan, Longjing and Meijiawu and are called Long Jing Shi Feng, Dragon well from the lion's summit. The Long Jing type of tea is also being produced in other regions of China and unfortunately sold as original Long Jing. Other well known Bian Xing Cha are the simpler Ding Gu Da Fang, and the excellent Tai Ping Hou Kui. Bian Xing Cha are light and sweet with a nutty aroma and the very clear and typical slightly bitter notes of green tea.
