Xi Hu Pre-Qing Ming Long Jing Organic Green Tea

The Xi Hu Pre-Qing Ming Long Jing Organic Green Tea was carefully selected in order to guarantee an high quality product and so a rich tasting experience.

In this green tea, in fact, you can already recognize from the name a lot of aspects that make the Long Jing unique and valuable.

First at all these leaves come from gardens in the lake area of Xi Hu, in Hangzhou, where it began and was developed the selection of camelia cultivar for Long Jing production.

Moreover, the fields where this green tea was cultivated following the organic protocols in order to guarantee an high quality product without any alternating elements.

Talking about the taste, you can expect a rich flavor profile because this Long Jing is a Pre-Qing Ming, so a tea harvested before the 4th of April. The leaves picked and processed before this date are still very young and so full of aromatic polyphenols, amino acids and other elements capable of giving an intense tasting experience.

In the Xi Hu Pre-Qing Ming Long Jing Organic Green Tea infuse you can mostly find sweet and toasted flavors like the ones of some dried fruits.

This peculiar aspect of a young Long Jing will persist for quite a while in the mouth but it doesn’t cover the vegetal aspect of this tea that has a grassy and refreshing tone.

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Place of origin

Hangzhou – Zhejiang, China

Production

The Xi Hu Pre-Qing Ming Long Jing Organic Green Tea has a processing style strictly linked to the tradition. The leaves, after a brief withering phase under the sun, are cooked in big iron wok heated at a temperature around 180°C. This practice stops the enzymatic activity in the vegetal mass and, so, it prevents the oxidation of the product.

In the end the green leaves are banded and left to rest for a while so they can fix their final shape and loose some residual humidity.

Brewing instructions for the Xi Hu Pre-Qing Ming Long Jing Organic Green Tea

We strongly recommend infusing this tea in the traditional Chinese method (Gong Fu Cha) with a gaiwan with a capacity of about 150 ml. By following this preparation, multiple infusions can be made with 5 grams of leaves that are useful to best capture all the flavor nuances of the tea.

Heat the water to a temperature of 70°C and proceed to an initial infusion of 25 seconds. Keeping the water at the same temperature, you can then continue to exploit the same leaves by adding more water and increasing the infusion time by 5 seconds each time (25 – 30 – 35…).

This tea has a longevity of 5-6 infusions.

For a more classic preparation according to the Western style, we recommend 3 grams of leaves (about 2 teaspoons) in a 200-mL cup with water at 70°C for an infusion time of 2-3 minutes.

For a better tasting experience, we suggest that you strain the infusion as soon as the brewing time is over. The brewing time recommendations, however, can also be slightly adjust by your personal taste in order to obtain a strong or more delicate cup of tea.

Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.

Green Tea benefits

Green Teas are always the most mentioned category when it comes to the health benefits of this beverage.

Instead of other teas, in fact, the tender and young leaves of this product has an higher concentration of useful and easily assimilable molecules for our body.

The most relevant benefits in Green Teas are related to antioxidants, amino acids and caffeine. The effects of these three elements could cut down the level of sugar in blood, slow the cellular aging process, and reduce the sense of fatigue through the day.

So, a daily dose of Green Tea is surely positive for our health but it’s also suggest to not exaggerate the assumption of this beverage in order to avoid a too high assumption of caffeine.

Discover all the benefits on our blog: Benefits of Green Tea