Jesse's 2025 Spring Green Tea Sampler

NOTE: READ BEFORE PURCHASING!

This item is a PREORDER for our spring green tea sampler. PLEASE CHECKOUT WITH THIS AS A SEPARATE ITEM from your other purchases, otherwise all items you order together with it must wait until the green tea sampler arrives in order to ship.

There is no set date yet for delivery; last year the spring teas shipped to customers in June. We will get them over as soon as we can!

All preorder purchases can be refunded at any time without question by emailing teafriendsupport@jessesteahouse.com

Every spring for hundreds of years, tea lovers have fought over the first pickings of the new green teas!

Spring green tea has unrivaled freshness, crisp sweetness and pure scent. It is light, sweet, and super drinkable - the perfect drink for the spring and summer!

We work directly with our tea farmers and partners in China to pack and seal green teas within days of harvest.

OUR 2025 GREEN TEA LINEUP!

The perfect tea for summer, quality green tea is sweet, easy drinking, and crisp!

Each sampler includes one 50g / 1.76oz (10 sessions) of each of 3 teas:

Hangzhou Longjing "Dragonwell" Green Tea
White Anji Green Tea
Bi Luo Chun "Jade Snail" Green Tea

Why Preorder?

Spring green tea is so highly sought after by Chinese customers that most farmers have already sold out their tea crop by the time it is picked.

Preordering ensures that you will 100% be able to get some this year's crop, and allows the Teahouse to get better prices since we can make a larger order.

ALSO! All preorder customers get a FREE MYSTERY TEA PET in addition to the sampler discount as our thanks for preordering and helping us know how much tea to get!

THE TEAS:

White Anji Green Tea

50g (10 sessions)

White tea? Green tea?

It's a bit confusing, but even though the Chinese name of this tea literally translates to "Anji White Tea", it is actually a super fresh and flavorful green tea! The "White" in the name refers to the bright, translucent color of the steeped leaves.

Known for it's very smooth mouth feel, Anji white tea has a soft, clean taste followed by a sweet finish. The leaves are long and pointy, and unfurl beautifully in water.

Jesse Says: We put it on the site last year and it has been a great success! It is super sweet and crisp, very easy-drinking, and makes excellent cold brew as well.

This tea was my favorite back when I lived in Shanghai for half a year in 2017 as a writer and cast member on the Chinese version of SNL. Anji is very close to Shanghai and I had the hookup with the farmers. I drank this stuff three times a day to keep writing all day.

Where's Waldo/Jesse - can you spot me in the cast photo?

Hangzhou Longjing (Dragonwell)

(50g - 10 sessions)

The classic green tea of the last 1500 years! Delicate with natural sweetness, Longjing is what everyone thinks of when you say "green tea."

This spring Longjing from the mountains surrounding area near Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, will bring the scent and taste of the famous West Lake to your home. This is a tea worth inviting friends over to try!

Jesse Says: Dragonwell, simply put, is "the" green tea! If you ever get a chance to visit Hangzhou, go to one of the many teahouses ringing the West Lake, sit, sip, and enjoy!

This will be our fourth year selling longjing on the site, and every year it is our best-selling green tea. I am very glad to bring it back!

Our dragonwell comes from right outside Hangzhou, close to - but not in - the West Lake central region. The tea from our providers is excellent quality but since it is outside the central region, we are able to give much better value. Still, this is a top-quality, hand-picked green tea and I am sure it will be a fantastic choice for any tea drinker!

Bi Luo Chun "Jade Snail" Green Tea

(50g - 10 sessions)

Biluochun, or "Jade Snail" Green Tea, is a premium variant of green tea known for the small, curled leaves. The flavor is bold and juicy, with strong sweetness.

The tea color is a yellow-ish green, and the leaves are covered in fine hairs, known as "Hao." The resulting tea can sometimes become cloudy with these hairs - a sign of quality.

Biluochun mixes the light, crisp flavor of classic green tea with a stronger, bolder personality. It's a great green tea for all four seasons!

How is Green Tea Made?

Want to see how green tea is made? Check out this video I made last year in China!

Unfortunately, due to paperwork challenges stemming from customs-related issues, our Monganshan green tea farmers were unable to get the paperwork needed to export our Moganshan Green tea in time for our preorder.

We hope to feature it either later in the year as an item for individual sale, or next year in our 2026 sampler.

This is truly sad for me, since we have worked with these farmers for several years. However, you can be assured that the green teas we do have on the site fit the highest standards of the Teahouse!

One bag of each not enough?

You know you. I know you. You're gonna want more.

I've got a double-sized sampler option for the real tea heads out there - just go to the drop-down menu and select the double-sized option.

Our bags are sealed and re-sealable, which means you can keep the tea fresh the whole year.

Can I buy them individually?

After the teas have arrived and all preorder customers get their tea, any remaining green tea will be available for individual purchase.

This sampler will also remain available, when in stock, though customers purchasing after the pre-order period will not get the free mystery tea pet.

All past green teas are in our Green Tea catalogue.

Jesse in Taiwan Oolong Sampler Box

2025 Spring Green Tea Sampler Preorder