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.
I CHEATED!!! Sorry, ORT. And after doing a comparison from 3 different boutique tea companies of this first flush 2026 King Peony from similar regions, this one is hands down my favorite! Thank you One River Tea for all your blood, sweat, and tears that go along with finding such a superior product. I could talk about the unrivaled sweetness or the melon and creamy green bean notes, but it’s already been said very well in all the other reviews. Bottom line, not only is this my favorite tea out of the ones I compared it against, but it’s my favorite tea out of my entire green collection this year. Enjoy!
I received a free sample with my order and was blown away by the color and taste - this is special and needs very little tea to make a really expressive session - thank you for opening my eyes wide!
A great opportunity to try single origin moacha from four famous regions. The moacha was carefully packaged inside vacuum sealed bags, inside of a beautiful wooden box, and thus got into my gaiwan without any breakage. The Lao Ban Zhang is stunning, I am floored by the chaqi, the wonderful floral minerality, the whole Menghai package, wow. A rare treat.
