Jesse's 2025 Spring Green Tea Sampler Every spring for hundreds of years, tea lovers have fought over the first pickings of the new green teas! Spring green tea has unrivaled freshness, crisp sweetness and pure scent. It is light, sweet, and super drinkable - the perfect drink for the spring and summer! We work directly with our tea farmers and partners in China to pack and seal green teas within days of harvest. OUR 2025 GREEN TEA LINEUP! The perfect tea for summer, quality green tea is sweet, easy drinking, and crisp! Each sampler includes one 50g / 1.76oz (10 sessions) of each of 3 teas: Hangzhou Longjing "Dragonwell" Green Tea White Anji Green Tea Bi Luo Chun "Jade Snail" Green Tea THE TEAS: White Anji Green Tea 50g (10 sessions) White tea? Green tea? It's a bit confusing, but even though the Chinese name of this tea literally translates to "Anji White Tea", it is actually a super fresh and flavorful green tea! The "White" in the name refers to the bright, translucent color of the steeped leaves. Known for it's very smooth mouth feel, Anji white tea has a soft, clean taste followed by a sweet finish. The leaves are long and pointy, and unfurl beautifully in water. Jesse Says: We put it on the site last year and it has been a great success! It is super sweet and crisp, very easy-drinking, and makes excellent cold brew as well. This tea was my favorite back when I lived in Shanghai for half a year in 2017 as a writer and cast member on the Chinese version of SNL. Anji is very close to Shanghai and I had the hookup with the farmers. I drank this stuff three times a day to keep writing all day. Where's Waldo/Jesse - can you spot me in the cast photo? Hangzhou Longjing (Dragonwell) (50g - 10 sessions) The classic green tea of the last 1500 years! Delicate with natural sweetness, Longjing is what everyone thinks of when you say "green tea." This spring Longjing from the mountains surrounding area near Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, will bring the scent and taste of the famous West Lake to your home. This is a tea worth inviting friends over to try! Jesse Says: Dragonwell, simply put, is "the" green tea! If you ever get a chance to visit Hangzhou, go to one of the many teahouses ringing the West Lake, sit, sip, and enjoy! This will be our fourth year selling longjing on the site, and every year it is our best-selling green tea. I am very glad to bring it back! Our dragonwell comes from right outside Hangzhou, close to - but not in - the West Lake central region. The tea from our providers is excellent quality but since it is outside the central region, we are able to give much better value. Still, this is a top-quality, hand-picked green tea and I am sure it will be a fantastic choice for any tea drinker! Bi Luo Chun "Jade Snail" Green Tea (50g - 10 sessions) Biluochun, or "Jade Snail" Green Tea, is a premium variant of green tea known for the small, curled leaves. The flavor is bold and juicy, with strong sweetness. The tea color is a yellow-ish green, and the leaves are covered in fine hairs, known as "Hao." The resulting tea can sometimes become cloudy with these hairs - a sign of quality. Biluochun mixes the light, crisp flavor of classic green tea with a stronger, bolder personality. It's a great green tea for all four seasons! How is Green Tea Made? Want to see how green tea is made? Check out this video I made last year in China! Unfortunately, due to paperwork challenges stemming from customs-related issues, our Moganshan green tea farmers were unable to get the paperwork needed to export our Moganshan Green tea in time for our preorder. This is truly sad for me, since we have worked with these farmers for several years. However, you can be assured that the green teas we do have on the site fit the highest standards of the Teahouse! One bag of each not enough? You know you. I know you. You're gonna want more. I've got a double-sized sampler option for the real tea heads out there - just go to the drop-down menu and select the double-sized option. All past green teas are in our Green Tea catalogue.
