Mingqian tea(明前茶): tea leaves picked and made before Qing Ming festival. In this period of time, nutritions in tea trees has been accumulated for long, and as it’s usually cool in early spring, tea trees grow slowly. Therefore Mingqian tea could carry more amino acid than teas picked after Qingming Festival, meanwhile has less tea polyphenols of bitter flavor, making Mingqian tea tastes mellow and aromatic.
Yuqian tea(雨前茶): tea leaves picked and made around Grain Rain season,in which nutritions is contained abundantly but less than Mingqian tea. Yuqian tea usually has a fresh and heavy taste, and could be steeped for longer time.
About Organic Tea and Organic Tea Garden
Organic produce and other ingredients are grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms, or ionizing radiation.
It holds a strict standard of building an organic tea garden. For example, the land which is planned to apply a qualification of organic tea garden should never use any pesticides in the past 5 to 10 years. In the range of 10 kilometers from the tea garden no factories should exist.
Teas Below is made of fresh tea leaves picked in 2012 (Spring Tea Recommended list)
- Premium grade Dragon Well Green Tea (Long Jing)
Harvest Time: March 25 – April 1, 2012
Grown in Xihu(西湖) near Hangzhou in province Zhejiang
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- Organic Hangzhou Tian Mu Qing Ding Green Tea
Harvest Time: March 3, 2012
Organically grown at Mt. Tian Mu(天目山) in Zhejiang Province
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- Organic Tian Mu Mao Feng Green Tea
Harvest Time: March 6, 2012
Organically grown at Mt. Tian Mu(天目山) in Zhejiang Province
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- Jasmine “Dragon Pearls” Green Tea
Harvest Time: March 25, 2012
Green tea from Fuding(福鼎), Fujian Province
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- Huang Shan Mao Feng Green Tea
Harvest Time: May 1, 2012
Grown on Mt. Huangshan(黄山) in Anhui Province
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- Organic Superfine Dragon Well Long Jing Green Tea
Harvest Time: March 3, 2012
Organically grown at Mt. Tian Mu(天目山) in Zhejiang Province
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- Organic White Peony (Bai MuDan) Tea
Harvest Time: April 5 – April 10, 2012
Organically grown at Mt. Taimu(太姥山) in Fujian province
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- Superfine Pre-Ming Dragon Well Long Jing Tea
Harvest Time: March.25 – April.1, 2012
Produced in Longjing Village(龙井村), Shifeng Mountain, Hangzhou, China
- Organic Silver Needle White Tea (Bai Hao Yin Zhen)
Harvest Time: March 25 – April 4, 2012
Organically grown at Mt. Taimu(太姥山) in Fujian province
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- Tai Ping Hou Kui Green Tea
Harvest Time: April 28, 2012
Produced in TaiPing HouKeng(太平猴坑) in Anhui Province
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- Xin Yang Mao Jian Green Tea
Harvest Time: April 20, 2012
Produced in Xinyang(信阳) in Henan Province
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- Dragon Well Green Tea (Long Jing)
Harvest Time: April 20, 2012
Produced at Xihu(西湖) Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province
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