What kind of tea is Jin Jun Mei, and how much does it cost per jin?
Chinese people love drinking tea. Whenever a guest comes to the door, the etiquette of brewing tea and offering tea is indispensable. China's famous teas include West Lake Longjing tea, Rizhao green tea, Pulong tea, Laoshan green tea, Wuyi rock tea, Dongting Biluochun tea, and others. Jin Jun Mei is also a tea, so what kind of tea is Jin Jun Mei?
1. What kind of tea is Jin Jun Mei?
1. Jin Jun Mei is a black tea, belonging to the Lapsang Souchong branch of black tea. It is a new variety of black tea developed in 2005 by Jiang Yuanxun, the 24th-generation inheritor of Lapsang Souchong black tea, who led a team to innovate and integrate on the basis of traditional techniques.
2. Jin Jun Mei originates from Tongmu Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. Tongmu Village is world-famous for “tea” and is the “birthplace of the world's black tea.” The raw material is picked from the tea buds of original-ecology high-mountain tea trees within a 565-square-kilometer area in the Wuyishan National Key Nature Reserve, and only the first spring tea buds are picked.
3. Jin Jun Mei is a rare treasure among teas. The tea leaves are slender like eyebrows, small and tightly formed, with a color combining gold, yellow, and black. The brewed liquor is golden yellow, sweet in the water, with fragrance within the sweetness, and a distinct floral and fruity aroma at the bottom of the cup. Whether drunk hot or cold, it is mellow, smooth, and pleasant, with the notable characteristics of “clear, harmonious, mellow, rich, and fragrant.”
4. Jin Jun Mei is a precious tea, made entirely by hand by tea masters. Every 500g of Jin Jun Mei requires tens of thousands of fresh tea buds. The fresh tea buds of high-mountain original-ecology small-leaf variety are picked within the Wuyishan Nature Reserve, and then completed through a series of complex processing steps.
2. How much does Jin Jun Mei cost per jin?
Because authentic Jin Jun Mei has too high a cost and too low a yield, its price is very high, and it is often in short supply. There is no unified standard for the retail price, and different tea grades have different prices. Generally speaking, the price of one jin of Jin Jun Mei ranges from several hundred yuan to over a thousand yuan.
The official Jin Jun Mei website divides Jin Jun Mei into the following 8 categories: pure Tongmu Pass Jin Jun Mei (not for sale), the most expensive limited-edition Jin Jun Mei on the market, Jin Jun Mei sold for over ten thousand per jin in specialty stores, authentic Jin Jun Mei that ordinary people drink themselves, Jin Jun Mei made from Meizhan, yellow-bud Jin Jun Mei, longan-fragrance Jin Jun Mei, and other inferior Jin Jun Mei.
The official price of Tongmu Pass wild hand-made Jin Jun Mei is 6800/jin, Tongmu Pass Jin Jun Mei limited edition (No. 9 wintersweet floral fragrance Jin Jun Mei) 3000/jin, floral and fruity honey fragrance Jin Jun Mei near Tongmu Pass (No. 8) 1500/jin, floral and fruity honey fragrance Jin Jun Mei near Tongmu Pass (No. 10) 1500/jin, comprehensive fragrance Jin Jun Mei (No. 6) 800/jin, selected first spring high-mountain yellow-bud honey fragrance and sweet potato fragrance strong-aroma Jin Jun Mei (No. 3) 350/jin, selected first spring high-mountain longan soup fragrance Jin Jun Mei (No. 2, only for tea shop wholesale) 300/jin, selected first spring high-mountain yellow-bud honey fragrance and sweet potato fragrance strong-aroma Jin Jun Mei (No. 1) 230/jin, Silver Jun Mei sold as Jin Jun Mei in tea shops (wholesale only, not retail) 100/jin.
Summary: Jin Jun Mei is a black tea, belonging to the Lapsang Souchong branch of black tea, and is a rare treasure among teas. It originates from Tongmu Village, Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. Because the cost is too high and the yield is too low, the price is also very high, ranging from several hundred yuan to over a thousand yuan per jin. The specific prices can be found on the official Jin Jun Mei website.