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.
In my country the Netherlands we're experiencing a (super)heatwave as it called and it is hot extremely hot. I'm taking a little bit of this delicious tea to work in my travel set to drink it in the middle of the afternoon, when the heat is really severe, on the terrace of our restaurant and the effect of this tea that it has on my body in this heat is absolutely amazing. It's not only really delicious and powerful but it cools my body which is amazing and I never experienced with any other tea before. Taste five stars, cooling effect 10 stars!
Leaves are very compressed but expand well in enough heat of for example a clay pot.
Leather, antique woods, bit of earth, pancake syrup (butterscotch), clay, dried paint, vanilla caramel.
Sweet, smooth, very clean, vanilla note that reminds of certain fu bricks. Very creamy tea. Simple daily drinker for sure. Will also give this a boil with a hint of salt. Price/quality ratio is good. Happy i went for a full brick.
Amazing tea. It has a crisp, citrusy, fruity quality. Brews up surprisingly clear but with a very enjoyable smooth (almost oily?) body. ABC is now something I look forward to every year.
Delicious. Savory, nutty, full bodied. What’s not to love about a good longjing like this? Also has surprising longevity grandpa style. I get a full infusion more than I do with many other greens.
