In this episode, Derek travels out to the West Lake area of Zhejiang Province’s major city Hangzhou. Here, for the past 1000 years, longjing, or Dragonwell Green Tea, has been being grown, processed, and drank. Meet four masters out here, Tang Xiaojun (唐小军) who makes immaculate Lion’s Peak Dragonwell, Tang Hejun (唐鹤君) who makes a very natural Baihefeng Dragonwell, Zhang Hailiang (张海良) who makes a Baihefeng Dragonwell in a wood-fired wok, and Xie Chunhua (谢春华) who has a large garden of the traditional Quntizhong Dragonwell varietal. We talk about the five main regions in the West Lake are, which are the Lion, the Dragon, The Cloud, the Tiger, and the Plum (狮，龙，云，虎，梅). And we compare the traditional Quntizhong (群体中) cultivar with the more modern Dragonwell #43. Check out the onerivertea.com website to sample the difference between core region, extra regional, handmade, machine made, Cultivar 43, and the Quntizhong cultivar dragonwell green teas!