2025 Tai Ping Kui Jian

Origine: An Hui province
Harvesting area: Huang Shan Hou Keng Village
Plantation altitude: 800~1200m above sea level
Harvesting: Spring 2025  (after Qing Ming before Gu Yu)
Tea varietal: Huang Shan Huang Ye Zhong

Building on the excellence of teas from the same celebrated region, the Spring 2025 Kui Jian is a new addition to Jing Tea Shop’s green tea collection. Grown in the heart of Houkeng, the birthplace of Taiping Houkui, Kui Jian offers a fresh expression of the same terroir, crafted with traditional techniques and meticulous care.

This selection brings a refined structure and aromatic elegance that reflects the spirit of its famous counterpart, while offering a distinctive profile of its own. As part of our ongoing commitment to sourcing excellence, this tea represents both continuity and discovery — an exciting introduction for those seeking depth beyond the familiar.

Tasting notes updated

The dry leaves of Taiping Kui Jian release a gentle, comforting aroma — sweet chestnut, the warmth of boiled sweet potato at room temperature, and the soft scent of water after cooking sweet corn. It’s a scent that quietly disarms you. You feel safe. At ease.
There’s also a hint of cane sugar and dry herbal notes, like a warm kitchen still holding the breath of something just made.

This is a tea that feels thoroughly accomplished — cleanly crafted, with no trace of greenness or roughness. It retains the leaf’s natural clarity and fragrance to the fullest.

The liquor is bright and softly golden. On the palate, it carries a generous body yet moves with ease — smooth, thick, almost like rice broth. The taste is mellow and full, with outstanding clarity.

Florals are not just aromatic but infuse the brew itself — a soft undercurrent of spring orchid, paired with a faintly translucent sweetness reminiscent of cane sugar. Clear in shape, elegant in presence.

Pure. Mellow. Clear. Graceful. Smooth.
It speaks not in volume, but in poise — the quiet confidence of a true classic.