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Black

Oolong

Lu’An Melon Seeds Premium
Lu Shan Gua Pian Certified Organic

Anhui Province, China
Basket-fired
Open leaf style
Earthy, clean & soft flavor
Nutty aroma
Deep straw liquor

1/4 lb	1/2 lb	lb
17.50 Buy	35.00 Buy	70.00 Buy

After being re-hydrated during brewing, the individual leaves that comprise this special tea resemble melon seeds of a uniform size and color. The Chinese call melon seeds gua pian, and believe that anything related to the squash family is lucky, fortuitous, and promotes fertility.

Lu Shan Gua Pian is grown in an isolated area on the rugged slopes of the Lu’An Mountains of Anhui Province, northwest of the Huang Shan. The garden where this tea is grown is protected by a bamboo grove that serves as the margin of its contour.

This is a very difficult tea to manufacture. It must be plucked very carefully, because it is the single first true leaf below the budset. This leaf is treasured for its concentration of flavor and lack of extraneous moisture.
This tea is usually quite nice, but this year’s crop is extraordinary.

We have tasted hundreds of green teas over the last 15 years, and this year’s Gua Pian is one of the finest spring Green teas that we have ever tasted.

Steep 2-3 infusions at 2 minutes each.
Water temperature should be 160˚ - 170˚ F