bi luo chun Green Tea
A good Biluochun (when you can get it) is truely a remarkable tea. To
my eyes it does not look like gunpowder much. Biluochun is not a green
tea type, but a particular tea. Gunpowder is a category of tea. Real
Biluochun certainly comes from Jiangsu, but there are quite poor
"copies" made at least in Taiwan and Yunnan. Once I bought erraneously
Taiwanese Biluochun from some Austrian tea vendor and that was less
than mediocre if compared the really fantastic genuine Biluochun that I
found in one tea shop in St.-Petersburg (this one has nothing to do
with Florida!). In better Chinese tea shops they offer often some 2-5
grades of Biluochun depending on season. The best ones are kept safe
behind the counter in some kind of refridgerators. The price tag may
have 3-4 digits (for one jin... I guess). Last October in Beijing I
bought some middle price Biluochun which is fairly good, but the leaves
are about 30% larger in size that the more expensive ones. Anyway...
real Jiangsu Biluochun is a classic and I recommend to try it.
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