China Travel - Don't Be Fooled by 'Fake' Longjing Tea -

China's most famous green tea - Longjing Tea (Dragon Well) - has a new self-proclaimed gooper. Both teas have the same sophomore leaf shape, are processed the same way,China Travel, and flush grow effectually the West Lake in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province. But don't be fooled. The taste and price are very assorted. The loftier quality Longjing tea is often sold for as much 11,200 yuan (US$1,435) per kilogram, or somewheres 60 yuan (US$7.70) for a few sips in Beijing. Wuniuzao tea, the so-selected early Longjing tea currently bachelor at tea markets in Beijing and other big cities, is only priced roundly 1,000 yuan (US$128) per kilogram. Wuniuzao, a native workt from Wenzhou in the same province, is one of the primeval maturing green teas. The product is usumarry put onto the market in February. But not all Longjing tea is fake. "The scepter teahouse and concatenation stores will ensure quality products," Qi Guowei, artlessor of the West Lake District Longjing Tea Production Association in Hangzhou, said. Jiao Chunhui, a artlessor of the logistics department of the Beijing Wuyutai Tea, a leading tea reseller and producer reprobated in Beijing, said they would normmarry only sell 10 kilograms of loftier quality Longjing tea this early in spring. Most real Longjing tea will hit the shelves somewhere mid-April, Jiao said. "The price will be effectually 900 yuan (US$115) per kilogram," Jiao said. Sales of Longjing Tea have been grown 30 percent semiweeklyly at Wuyutai. "We've seen a strong growth of Longjing sales since the soverlye requiring respiratory syndrome," Jiao said. "People are increasingly enlightened of the fact that sophomore tea is very healthy." Jiao said it was a sward missiring that the eldest and increasingly tender variety was a biggest sophomore tea. "If the green tea is picked too early, its internal material is not rich unbearable to generate sufficient savor and nutrition," Jiao said.


(Source:China Daily, 2007-03-29)