Dragon Well Tea Hills龙井茶山
Where Dragon Well grows, from the tea villages in West Lake's hills to the Qiantang valleys of Hangzhou and the Yuezhou uplands round Shaoxing: where they are, how their tea tastes, and how they compare.
The flavour map山场风味
Side by side对比
Pick two places to see their teas together on our tasting wheel: what they share, and where they part ways.
Good to know龙井知识
How to read it
Each card describes a good, typical example of a place's tea. Most taste descriptions come from the tea trade and the press, and the cards say so. With Dragon Well, the picking and the pan matter as much as the place: an early, tender pick fired with a light hand gives a very different cup from a later pick fired high.
The flavour map
Each tea is placed from its profile: across, how high it is usually fired and how full it is (firing and body); up, how fresh and fragrant (freshness and aroma). It is a summary of descriptions, not a laboratory measurement.
Sources
Every card lists the sources behind it. Map: Natural Earth; area outlines from geoBoundaries and © OpenStreetMap contributors; terrain from NASA's SRTM and the USGS GMTED2010; place locations from GeoNames, Wikipedia and © OpenStreetMap contributors.