ANSHUN JIN JUN MEI | black

notes — brown sugar | rose | decadent

ANSHUN JIN JUN MEI is a bud-only black tea from Anshun City, Guizhou province, China. A sister production to ANSHUN MAOFENG,  our second Jin Jun Mei shares an atypical genetic makeup. The base material is Longjing #43, a cultivar developed for longjing production in Zhejiang province. Like bai hao yinzhen (silver needle), jin jun mei is famously sweet and luscious. As tippy teas go, this lot is particularly sweet. Without hyperbole, the sugar is (relative to other teas) almost cloying; tea drinkers with a sweet tooth will find this lot deeply satisfying. And while addictively saccharine, this jin jun mei is certainly not one-dimensional. As with the new maofeng from our Guizhou farmer-partner, the terroir speaks in this tea with unordinary clarity, and the unusual cultivar brings unmistakable nuance to an otherwise straightforward tea style.

vintage — spring '23

style —jin jun mei 

cultivar — longjing #43

region —Anshun, Guizhou, China

locale —Anshun Royal Tea Farm

elevation — 1300 meters

producer —multiple

nomenclature — jin jun mei ( 金駿眉)—"golden beautiful brow"

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