Yellow君山岛Junshan Islandaged 5 mo ·
2020 Diamond Peak
Nuanced, big umami hitter with hard-to-pin flavors
85/100
junshan-yinzhen.style
Junshan Yinzhen
yellow1 cultivar on record
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This style is most typically associated with material from a small island called Junshan in Dong Ting Lake, all within Hunnan. This island is uninhabited and contains a very limited number of government-run tea plantations. If the material is grown on the island of Junshan itself, it's possibly the rarest style of tea in the world, and can command well over a grand USD for 100g of finished product. As such, this is typically reserved as a modern tribute tea for government officials and VIPs.
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Notes
However, some non-government owned tea gardens in the immediately surrounding area have a nearly identical terroir and produce 'Junshan' Yinzhen which can be nearly indistinguishable from the island-grown stuff, but much more affordable. A lot of this mainland material will also enter the market pretending to be island-grown Junshan Yinzhen to tap into the insane price inflation around it. Technically the mainland material is not full-on true Junshan Yinzhen, but it can be damn near.