2025 Spring Longjing (Dragonwell) Green Tea

What is Spring Green Tea?

A timeless favorite, green tea is all about freshness! Unoxidized and bright, green tea is known for its light, clean taste, natural sweetness, enticing scent, and easy-drinking feel.

Spring tea is highly sought after because green tea loses flavor and fragrance with age. So green tea fans always stock up on spring green tea and drink it until the next year's crop comes out!

THE TEA

Longjing, or "Dragonwell" tea, is one of the most renowned types of Chinese tea.

Declared "Gong Cha" or "Tribute Tea" by the Kangxi Emperor, the smooth, fresh, delicate flavor of Longjing has come to define green tea.

This green tea comes from the areas nearby the West Lake of Hangzhou, where the temperate, rainy climate makes for fantastic tea terroir. Picked just after the Qingming Festival, spring green tea is the freshest there is.

The resulting flavor is a bright-scented tea with a clean, light yellow color. Our spring Longjing has a pure, slightly grassy taste and bursting with fresh fragrance and virtually no bitterness.

Cold Brew Options

While green tea can be consumed year-round, it is especially prized during summer, because of its lower, cooler steeping temperature and crisp, easy-drinking flavor.

And while it's not a traditional Chinese method, green tea makes for an excellent cold brew or iced tea! Simply put the leaves inside a bottle or pitcher, leave it overnight in the fridge, and enjoy the following day! Even a few hours can be enough time.

Jesse Says:

Longjing is simply a classic. It's the most popular green tea inside and outside of China for a reason, and I'm glad to be able to share the fresh Spring tea with everyone around the world!

World-Class Pesticide & Heavy Metals Testing

As part of our expansion into the EU, this tea has passed through extremely rigorous pesticide and heavy metals testing, far in excess of our normal FDA standard testing.

These tests look for 681 banned or restricted substances, and our teas have passed all 681 standards!

I believe one of the reasons Gongfu Tea has struggled to grow outside of China is because of these very intensive testing standards, which are expensive and slow, but I am determined that Jesse's Teahouse be at the forefront of bringing good tea to the world while sticking to the highest standards for health and safety.

Save with the Sampler Box!

Get all three Spring green teas together and save with our Green Tea Sampler!

VALUE AND QUALITY

Jesse's Teahouse started because Jesse realized the quality and value of the tea directly from the Beijing Tea Market was so much higher than what could be easily found in the States -- and around the world.

Jesse contacted his tea friends, they shipped their best teas to him, and he sends them to you. That's it!

These teas are high quality and can be re-steeped multiple times! Each serving makes between 4-8 cups of tea, so at around $.50 a cup, you get top quality Chinese teas at a price that you can enjoy every day.

NOT JUST TEA, TEA CULTURE

Jesse believes the key to making good tea is to help his Chinese tea friends share not just their best teas, but the best ways to make the teas.

That's why each box comes also comes with an info card that tells you:

Tea Origin
Steep Temperature
Steep Time
Directions for both teapot steeping and gaiwan steeping

All Jesse’s Teahouse Tea Friends (that’s you now!) also get access to private YouTube videos where Jesse and his Chinese tea friends show you how to make the teas and explain the tea-making process.

The links are on QR codes on the back of the info card included in the tea box.

Don't Forget Your Tea Pets!

In Chinese Gongfu Tea Tradition, Tea Pets accompany you at teatime and you "raise" them by feeding them tea! Check out the tea pets at the bottom of this page.

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