Location: Fuzhou, Minhou County, Xiangqian Township.
Producer: Lvming Factory
Harvest: April 2025 (Tea); August 2025 (Jasmine)
Tasting Notes: Jasmine, Butter, Alfalfa, Hay.
This is a tea that lovers of jasmine, green tea, and white tea can all appreciate. It has the strong, sweet, stable perfumed floral aroma that one would expect to find in a well made jasmine tea. It also has the cooling crispness of a green tea, that can be felt from the first to last infusion. It finally has the same delicate and creamy notes down-heavy cultivars in Fuding provide to early pick white teas.
Fuzhou is one of the original homes of jasmine tea. The Lvming factory does it a little different than how it is now done in Sichuan and other areas. As has been true for generations, the final product is visibly yellowed from the four rounds of piling & baking it has undergone over several weeks. In each round, workers stack, flip, and mix dry finished green tea with fresh jasmine flowers. The green tea had been picked and produced in Fuzhou using Fuding Dahao cultivar bushes, then shipped up to Fuding, especially Dianxia Township, in the Summer to be steamed, rolled, and sunned dry agauin by rural women who have been undertaking this work for decades. The jasmine fresh flowers are picked in Fuzhou in afternoons of July & August, when the temperatures are hottest and the greatest quantity of freshly opened flowers is available. For each round of piling/baking, fresh picked jasmine flowers most be procured. Unlike in other production regions, flowers from the last round of piling do not usually make into the bag with the final product here.
This tea can be enjoyed grandpa-style, cold brewed, or even in a Gaiwan as some do in Fuzhou and Beijing.
This tea is a solid choice, but strictly for those who enjoy a distinct bitterness! 🍃
This tea features a noticeable bitter note that stays with you throughout the entire session, rewarding you with a wonderful sweet aftertaste (hui gan). Plus, it packs quite a strong Cha Qi (tea energy) that you can really feel.
If you appreciate a bold, energetic profile with a pleasant bitter-to-sweet transformation, this one is definitely worth a try!
It’s smooth, sweet, and very enjoyable, though noticeably different from the first batch. It’s not better or worse—just different. This new version features lighter roasting, bringing out fresher, fruitier notes compared to the heavier roast of the first batch.
It would be amazing to have both options available at the same time: the more heavily roasted batch 1 and this lightly roasted version, so you could choose based on your mood. Still, it’s a wonderful and unique tea!
It has a rich, smooth flavor with great notes of wild berries and honey sweetness. Because it's made from wild tea trees, it tastes super fresh and natural, with no bitterness. It easily lasts for many re-steeps, and the flavor stays great every time.
If you like black tea with a fruity, smooth twist, you'll love this one!
