Award-Winning "Jade Dew" EnShi Yu Lu Green Tea
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description: Sifu Lao Cha treated a traveling monk to a cup of Enshi Yu Lu Green Tea. – Sifu, this tea is so refreshing and delicious! It reminds me of Sencha – the tea that I tasted during my pilgrimage to Japan! – Sencha took its form from Chinese teas. Since then, our teas have transformed. But today, you are drinking the source. Place of Origin: Baiyang Township, Enshi City, Hubei Province, China Altitude: 800-1100m Harvest Time: April 2026 Picking Standard: One bud and one leaf Cultivar: Longjing #43 (龙井43号) Aroma: Oatmeal with raspberry, baked spinach Taste: Umami with notes of chestnut and asparagus Enshi Yu Lu (恩施玉露), which means “Jade Dew from Enshi”, is the link between the steaming method invented in China over a thousand years ago and modern Chinese green tea. During the Tang dynasty (618–907), steaming (蒸青 – Zheng Qing) was the method used to make all Chinese green tea. Lu Yu describes it in “The Classic of Tea” (茶经 – Cha Jing). After the Tang era, China gradually shifted to pan-firing (炒青 – Chao Qing), and steaming gradually disappeared from the mainland. Japan, which had learned the technique from Tang-era China, kept it and refined it into sencha, gyokuro, and the rest of the Japanese green tea tradition. Enshi Yu Lu is a Chinese tea that retains the older processing method. The tea dates to the Qing dynasty Kangxi reign and was originally a pan-fired green called Yu Lü (玉绿 – Jade Green). In 1936, tea master Yang Runzhi (杨润之) reverted to steam processing and renamed it Yu Lu (玉露 – Jade Dew). In 1945, it was exported to Japan, where it earned the nickname "Chinese Gyokuro". In 1965, it was named one of China's Top Ten Famous Teas. The comparison to Japanese sencha comes up often, since both teas are sun-grown and steam-processed, but the two are more different than they first appear. Enshi Yu Lu uses a lighter, briefer steam on Chinese leaf, while Japanese sencha (especially deep-steamed Fukamushi) uses longer, more intense steaming on Japanese cultivars. Here, th…
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