Chunmee #1 Special Green Tea

Chunmee #1 Special Premium Loose Leaf Green Tea

Full-bodied, delicate flavour with toasted notes and a sweet plum-like character. Mellow smokiness tending to sweet tobacco. The infusion is bright and yellow leafy, green. A very impressive tea. The word “mee or mei” means eyebrow: Chunmee translated is “Precious Eyebrow”, relating to the shape of the tea leaves. The leaves are hand-rolled in a traditional fashion and pan-fired requiring great skill since the final tea is considered a work of art. Patience, great hand coordination, temperature control and timing achieve a fine jade-coloured leaf and mellow yellowish brew. Traditionally harvesting the leaves should begin well before daybreak and stop shortly after. Picking must be done with the fingernails not with the fingers lest the freshness and taste be contaminated. Leaves of whitish colour shaped like sparrows’ tongues or grains of corn are best.

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Place 1 – 1.5 tsp of tea per cup allow to brew for 2-5 mins according to taste.