Spring Rare tea

This Simao green tea, reportedly from a 2026 spring harvest, promises a lively and robust cup. It offers a refreshing and distinctively vegetal character with a clean, invigorating finish, truly energ. It leans vegetal, robust and clean.

Water around 70–80 °C (158–176 °F). In a mug, steep 2–3 min. For gongfu, use 3–5 g per 100 ml, 15–30 s steeps. You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. The biggest mistake with green tea is using boiling water. Keep it well below that and you won't get bitterness.

Grown in Yunnan, China. This batch is from the Spring 2026 harvest.

Starts at $6.25 from Bitterleaf Teas, or about $0.12/g. A 50g package gets you around 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.72 per session. Explore more green teas on Teadar.