Tea: Dragon Well Lung Ching
A Dragon Well (Long Jing) from Imperial Tea Garden
| Brand: | Imperial Tea Garden |
| Style: | Dragon Well (Long Jing) |
| Region: | Zhejiang, China |
| Caffeine: | Caffeinated |
| Loose? | Loose |
| # Ratings: | 1 View All |
| Product page: | Dragon Well Lung Ching |
Reviewer: Alex Zorach
✓ 1448 teas reviewed
✓ 21 of Dragon Well (Long Jing)
✓ 219 of Green Tea
✓ 16 of Imperial Tea Garden
✓ 25 from Zhejiang, China
✓ 381 from China
Review of Dragon Well Lung Ching
June 7th, 2013
| Aroma | Flavor | Value | Total |
| 4 of 10 | 2 of 5 | 2 of 5 | 43 of 100 |
| Mediocre | Mediocre | Overpriced |
I was really impressed with Imperial Tea Garden's Hunan green teas. This tea though, did not impress me.
This did not taste like a dragon well. Aroma grassy but also quite smokey--a quality I never encounter in true, high-quality dragon well. Toasty, but with more bite, less smoothness.
Not quite as bad as some tea I've seen labelled as dragon well, but among the worse examples that I actually finished a cup of.
It's also expensive relative to how good I thought it was--which wasn't very good.
I wouldn't buy this...especially when Imperial Tea Garden has so many teas that I thought were genuinely high-quality, including green teas, like White Eagle Long Life, or Moon Swirl White Tip. For Dragonwell, I recommend TeaVivre, the company whose teas of this type I've had the best experiences with.
