Spring Harvest · Green Tea
Biluochun (碧螺春) Tea
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Its tightly curled leaves are so fine that it takes tens of thousands of hand-picked buds to make a single pound.
Biluochun is a tightly curled green tea grown on Dongting mountain near Suzhou's Lake Tai, famous for a delicate fruity aroma picked up from nearby fruit orchards. Tea stalls around Suzhou's old town serve it in glass cups so drinkers can watch the spiral leaves sink and swirl.
Why it's made this way: Its unusual fruit-orchard-adjacent growing region gives Biluochun a flavor unique to Jiangsu, prized since the Qing dynasty.
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