Long Jing

Sourced from Zhejiang near the beautiful Thousand Island Lake, the softening leaves floating in a glass pitcher may suggest nothing so much as the vibrant colours and unusual forms of this neighbouring landscape. The Long Jing, often known as Dragonwell, is given a medium roasting to draw out its renown chestnutty flavor, though this year the distinctive flattened buds is more rather a semblance towards green hazelnut, with a green coffee pungency and the hearty vegetality of fiddlehead fern to round it out.