Oriarm Chinese Longjing Green Tea 250g - West Lake Dragon Well Loose Leaf Tea

1: Packaging - It comes in a thick ziplock bag, it is economical yet effective to preserve the freshness and flavor.2. Dry tea smell test - Though I can smell Long Jing’s distinct aroma, it is a little light.3. Wet tea smell test – After gently rinse with hot water, it definitely releases a lot more authentic Long Jin scent. Also, a fresh tea smell confirms it is from current year.4. Dry tea leaf shape – They are from plant’s tip parts, consistent, and fresh.5. Dry tea color - It has a pretty brownish green color that confirms its freshness also the proper “dry stir fry” skills.6. In hot water - Leafs are consistent, and are healthy and tender leafs. It release a light green color and a beautify aroma.Summary - I definitely will enjoy drinking it everyday!-- A bit more background if you want to read more --As a programmer, I drink lots of tea everyday. I used to buy them directly from China, but logistics was a pain and quality is polarized and unpredictable. Recently, I discovered there are tea sellers on Amazon. I decided to give them a try. I set my first attempt’s budget at tea under $4/oz range. This price range is good enough for average people’s daily consumption.I also tried Cha Wu, FullChea. To my surprise, they all deserve a 5 star for tea under $4 per oz grade. I am very happy to see these sellers are serious to establish a brand in US Amazon. My best wishes to all of them. I won’t demand any improvement, I only hope for consistency!fyi, my picture of tea in hot water is just for review purpose. To properly drink this type of tea, you need to use a filter that you can take tea out after 20 second.

I am happily rewriting this reveiw!I received a new shipment of this tea.I very much like this tea. It smells light and wonderful. It is fresh and a beautiful color. It tastes sweet, mellow, rounded. It is of such good quality. I must also say I very much LOVE this company. They are respectfully hospitable and should be respected. They really care about the quality of their product! I highly respect them as they are loyal to perfect service and excellent tea!Thank you! Most Impressive! I can not express enough how very pleased I am.Thank you again (tapping)*Customers of Amazon, drink some of this tea, please❤

First of all, I really like how this tea is shipped in a styrofoam box wrapped in bubble wrap. It makes me feel like the tea is really safe in there; and it is! When I open it up, the leaves are long and unbroken. In fact, I often have to break them in half in order to make them fit in my steeper. Also, I like that the company emailed me to let me know the yuqian tea was available, which is great because I haven’t had fresh tea since I lived in China 6 years ago. Long jing is my favorite but this company inspired me go ahead and buy tie guan yin too. Best quality I’ve had in 6 years.

Not bad. First time trying it.

Unlike any dragon well I've had before. Tastes spoiled. Not sure if this is just a bad batch or the standard for this brand, but I will try to return it. The brand I bought previously was twice as expensive as this but delicious. In the future I won't try to save money on something as important to my life as tea!

Not the best dragonwell. All other Oriarm teas have been great. I think there was something off with this batch.

Long jin is the most famous green tea of China and the tea given to visiting dignitaries. I used to buy long jin from Hong Kong. It was very good but very expensive. As with wine, the long jin grown in different locations has degrees of flavor. This long jin is not quite so good as what I was getting before, but it is the only long jin I will buy now because it is being sold for only a small fraction of the price I was paying, and it is still has the lovely long jin taste. Green tea is delicate and should be steeped 180° for 30-45 seconds. I have a thermostatted pot for heating the water. Just don't boil it. And for goodness sake don't steep it for three minutes! It will ruin the delicate flavor and make the taste metallic and awful.

Although the tea was fragrant, it was a tea fragrance of the kind of tea that has been kept in a box for a long time. The tea aroma is very washed out, like it's on the surface of the tea leaves. The aroma of the tea was like the aroma of ordinary tea leaves that I make myself at home, not the satisfying aroma that a good Longjing should have.The taste of the tea was also a bit strange, tasting like the taste of tea that has been brewed again after recycling.