Jin Jun Mei Black Tea

This Jin Jun Mei tea originates from Tong Mu Guan in the Wuyi Mountains, where the unique geographical environment provides abundant and pure nutrients for the tea bushes, contributing to the tea's exceptional quality. The real Jin Jun Mei is not characterized by a covering of lots of golden tips; rather, it is made from whole single buds, which are hand-picked and then withered, rolled, fermented, and dried.

The dry tea leaves are beautiful, short, and uniform, resembling eyebrows, and exhibit a blend of black, yellow, and gold colors. A light sniff of the dry tea reveals a fragrance mixed with floral, fruity, and honey aromas, as if encapsulating the spiritual essence of the Tong Mu Guan mountains and rivers, making one eager to taste it. Once brewed, the tea liquor is golden and clear, rich with the scent of nectar; upon the first sip, its silkiness and sweetness are palpable, followed by a bursting and spreading fragrance of flowers and fruits in the mouth, full-bodied and long-lasting. This tea has excellent resistance to multiple infusions, and its unique aroma will persist until the very end.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	185℉ / 85℃		185℉ / 85℃
	3g Tea		5g Tea
	Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins		12 steeps: rinse, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 30s, 35s, 45s, 60s, 80s, 100s, 130s, 160s

The raw materials for this tea come from Tong Mu Guan within the Wuyi Mountains National Nature Reserve. This area boasts an excellent ecological environment with high altitudes, warm and rainy weather, swirling mists, mild winters, and cool summers. The sun rises late and sets early here, creating significant temperature differences between day and night. It is the region in Fujian Province with the lowest temperatures, highest rainfall, highest relative humidity, and most foggy days. All these conditions are ideal for tea growth. The tea bushes here are not planted in large, orderly tea gardens; instead, they are sporadically scattered across jungle-surrounded hillsides or unevenly nestled beside rocky streams. As it is a nature reserve, pesticides are not used on the tea bushes, and human intervention in their growth is minimal. Therefore, the tea quality is exceptionally high, rich and pure in its intrinsic properties.

Hand pick the single tea buds

Sun Withering

Tong Mu Guan is located in Tongmu Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, and serves as a provincial boundary pass between Fujian and Jiangxi. It is one of the eight great passes of the Wuyi Mountains. The ecological environment within Tong Mu Guan is excellent, earning it accolades such as "Paradise of Birds," "Kingdom of Snakes," "World of Insects," and "Key to the Species Biological Gene Bank." Tong Mu Guan is the core area of the Wuyi Mountains National Nature Reserve, with Huanggang Mountain, standing at 2,157.8 meters, as its highest peak. As the saying goes:"the origin of black tea is in China, the root of Chinese black tea is in Fujian, and the ancestor of black tea is in Tong Mu of Wuyishan." The tea trees in Tongmu Guan primarily grow in a semi-wild state on the slopes, which is why the local tea gardens are also referred to as tea mountains.

Meizhan tea tree species are clone kinds with short trees and large leaves. It is indigenous to Anxi, Fujian. The dry sample of one bud and two leaves contains about 3.6% amino acids, 27.5% tea polyphenols, 18.1% total catechins, and 4.4% caffeine. Meizhan has strong growth adaptability and high yield. Because the tree species naturally has aroma of flowers and fruits, it is not only suitable for making oolong tea, but also black tea and green tea, which has unique aroma, good quality and strong taste