For the purpose of letting more people know about this particular series of these featured tea that we have carefully picked, TeaVivre now provide a special assortment in lower price. The sample bag includes five kinds of them.
Organic Superfine Dragon Well Long Jing Green Tea
Fengqing Dragon Pearl Black Tea
Taiwan Monkey Picked (Ma Liu Mie) Tie Guan Yin Oolong Tea
Fengqing Golden Buds Ripened Pu-erh Cake Tea 2005
Jasmine Silver Needle White Tea (Mo Li Yin Zhen)
- Produced in Tianmu Mountain(天目山), Lin’an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
- One bud with one or two leaves
- Dry tea is shaped straight and pretty
- Soup presents tender a yellowish green color, tastes sweet and brisk; aroma lasts long in the middle and back part of the tongue.
- Fresh aroma with chestnut flavor
- Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee)
- 1-2 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 176ºF (80 ºC) for 1 to 2 minutes
This Organic Dragon Well Long Jing tea origins in organic tea base of Tianmu Mountain in Lin’an, Hangzhou. The organic tea base of Tianmu Mountain, has passed the organic certification of European, USA and Japan, is a significant base of planting organic dragon well and green tea.
- The leaves come from wild tea trees in Fengqing, Yunnan.
- Taste sweet and smooth, with a slight flavor of chocolate.
- Globular black tea, with plenty of white hairs.
- Shaped into balls by hand.
- The tea liquor is red-brown.
- Each piece Diameter sizes from 8 to 12 millimeters.
- 3-4 pieces for 8oz of water. Brew at 212 ºF (100 ºC) for 1 to 2 minutes
Using black teas from Fengqing, Yunnan as material, the Black Dragon Pearl tea is manually made into the shape of pearl, meanwhile is preserved with the aroma of black tea. The leaves of Black Dragon Pearl tea would only be picked around the time of Qingming / Pre-Ming, which is around Apr. 5, 2011 in spring. It’s the highest grade in spring teas, with marked white hairs. The pearl of this tea are 8 to 12 millimeters in diameter. When carefully smelling the flavor of dry tea, you can easily figure a slight smell of chocolate beside the aroma of black tea.
- Origin Place: Lishan, Taizhong, Taiwan
- A wild kind of Tie Guanyin
- The degree of fermentation is 100%
- Evenly and tightly rolled tea leaves
- Orange Red color when brewed
- Baked Taste with a smoothly and soft flavor
- 2-3 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 212 ºF (100 ºC) for 1 to 3 minutes
Using Taiwan autumn tea as material, this Monkey Picked Tie Guanyin carefully selected by Teavivre is baked slowly by soft fire (the baking process falls into three steps and every step lasts two minutes). The degree of fermentation is 100 percent so that the dried tea can keep a long-lasting fragrance. After brewing, the smell of honey peach and the baked flavor can be perfectly appreciated and the beverage tastes gorgeously smooth.
- Produced in Fengqing, Lincang, Yunnan, China
- Made from 100% pure leaves from 30 to 40 years old Large-leaf Arbor Tea Trees
- Leaves Hand-picked on March, 2004. Choose high quality leaves during process
- Dry Storage, pure taste
- Mellow earthy sweet taste with flowery flavor
- Manufacture: Yunnan Fengqing Sanning Tea Industry Co., Ltd.
- Production Date: May, 2005
This Golden Buds Puerh Cake made in 2005 is the high-end products from Fengqing Sanning Tea Company. There’re plenty of highest quality tender buds with white tips. The buds which turned to be golden color after fermentation were combined with other levels Puerh maocha which contain much flavor content so that this Puerh cake has the characteristics of pure aroma, mellow taste and quick sweet aftertaste. This puerh cake is produced in Fengqing, Yunan. Fengqing is the original place of the world-wide famous Dian Hong Tea. And it is also a classic place of Yunnan Pu-erh.
- Produced in Fuding(福鼎), Fujian, China
- Mixing the freshness and fragrance of jasmine with the mellowness and sweetness of silver needle pekoe.
- Original tea tree: Pekoe (Da Bai Hao)
- Tea buds covered in white hairs, which are straight and fat
- Pale Bright and clear tea liquor
- 2-3 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 176 ºF (80 ºC) for 1 to 2 minutes
Jasmine Silver Needles is a kind of jasmine- flavored white tea. Produced in Panxi, Fuding, Fujian, it is picked from pekoe (Da Bai Hao) tea tree. It is made through silver needle pekoe scented with jasmine. All the tea leaves should be picked before Pure Brightness and plucking time only lasts ten days. It is the superior grade of spring tea.
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This is a great sample pack, especially if you're new to tea. These are some of the best teas for each type. The packs are also generous sizes and can make multiple cups each. I especially enjoyed the black, green and oolong.
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This is a very nice mix of teas, and well represents each individual type of tea. (green, white, black, pu erh, and oolong)