Dragon Well Tea
| Brand: | Ten Ren Tea |
| Style: | Dragon Well Tea |
| Caffeine: | Caffeinated |
| Region: | China |
| Loose/teabag: | Teabag |
| Official product page: | Dragon Well Tea |
Commercial Description:
Dragon Well, also known as Long-Gin or Lung-Ching, is a green tea that is considered one of China's famous teas. It was mentioned by Lu Yu (733-804 A.D.) in his extensive thesis on tea, titled the "The Classic of Tea". Dragon Well leaves are pan fried instead of steamed to stop the fermentation process. The tea is steeped from good quality leaves and has a yellow-green color, pure aroma, and fresh and rich flavor with a pleasant aftertaste.
Like other green teas, Dragon Well is an unfermented tea. Green tea has been reported to contain vitamin C, many amino acids, and among teas, the highest concentration of catechins which has been reported by researchers to help prevent cancer.
Ratings & Reviews:
| Review by Alex Zorach on Aug. 30th, 2009 |
| Total: 21/30 : Aroma: 6/10, Flavor: 4/5, Value: 5/5, Overall: 6/10 |
| This teabag contains broken leaves of green tea, but they are more whole than the fannings and dust found in some teabags. The tea brews a clear golden colour and has a rather strong smokey aroma with some hints of grassyness. It has a crisp flavor with some bite. Even when brewed at a lower temperature, there's still a bit of an unpleasant acidity to it. Compared to a typical dragon well tea, I find this tea to be much more smokey, and less grassy. The brewing instructions printed on the teabag are wrong--it says to use boiling water, 2-4 min, and to use one cup. As one would expect, this will scald the tea. TenRen gives better brewing instructions on their website. But also, I have found that this is a strong-ish tea and the teabag contains a good volume of leaves. I recommend using at least a cup and a half (if you have an adequately-sized mug) and brewing this for only two minutes. You can then make a second cup brewing it longer. This is among the best green teabag teas I've tried. It blows away TenRen's regular "green" teabags and is only a few cents more expensive per cup. If, like me, you like to stache a handful of teabags on you "just in case" you're stuck somewhere with lipton-only, this is a good choice. |
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