"Yunwu" (cloud and mist) describes a growing condition shared by several unrelated Chinese green teas — only the specific Jiujiang, Jiangxi origin and GB/T 21003-2007 standard make this the protected Lushan Yunwu Tea.
Lushan Yunwu Tea (庐山云雾茶, “Lushan Cloud and Mist Tea”) is a protected green tea grown in the Lushan Scenic Area of Jiujiang, Jiangxi — a mountain the national standard describes with an unusually specific climate profile: an annual average temperature of 11.5°C and an average of 188 foggy days a year, the source of the tea’s name.
“Yunwu” (云雾, cloud and mist) itself is not exclusive to this tea — several unrelated Chinese green teas grown at altitude use the same descriptive term for their misty growing conditions. What makes this specific tea Lushan Yunwu Tea is the combination of the protected Jiujiang origin and China’s national standard, GB/T 21003-2007, which restricts the name to the Lushan Scenic Area and a defined set of surrounding townships.
The standard requires whole, fresh-green, uniform buds and leaves — hand-plucked, with pinch-picking or strip-picking explicitly prohibited, since either method damages the leaf edge. Processing follows kill-green, rolling, a second firing that includes straightening and pekoe-raising, then drying. Top grade (特级) is described as tightly fine with visible tips, green and lustrous, producing a tender-green, bright liquor with a clean, lasting aroma and a fresh, mellow taste that finishes with returning sweetness.
The standard sets four grades — 特级, 一级, 二级 and 三级 — with quality limits including moisture at or below 7.0%, total ash at or below 6.5%, and broken tea at or below 5.0%.
See the Green Tea guide for where Lushan Yunwu Tea sits among China’s other protected green teas.
Look · Dry leaf
Top-grade (特级) dry leaf is described in the standard as tightly fine with visible tips, green and lustrous, uniform and clean.
Smell & taste
Typical aroma: clean, lasting. Flavor tendencies: fresh, mellow, returning sweetness. Body: light-medium. These vary by batch, storage and brewing.
Brew · A starting point
Try 3 g in 150 ml water at 80–85°C for 60–90 seconds. Fully decant before tasting.
Read the wet leaves
Top-grade infused leaf is described as fine, tender and uniform. Appearance alone does not confirm the protected origin or grade.
Sources & review status
- 21份标准提炼.md — Lushan Yunwu Tea material card (citing GB/T 21003-2007) — ChinaTea101 owner-supplied Source Library. Used for the full national GI standard profile: protected area (Lushan Scenic Area and named townships), climate data, permitted cultivars, raw-material and picking requirements, process sequence, sensory grading by tier (特级 through 三级), and physicochemical limits (moisture ≤7.0%, total ash ≤6.5%, broken tea ≤5.0%). No legend or historical claim is documented in this source for this tea, so none is added.
- SCNet (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Event) extraction pass over the same material card, used to draft initial English prose from the raw standard citations — SCNet API (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-Event). SCNet's draft correctly flagged that the standard's Appendix A (full list of designated towns) was not supplied in the source card, and correctly declined to draw a comparison to Longjing or Biluochun beyond the documented shape difference. Claude verified the draft against the source card directly before writing this file; no fabricated claims were found in SCNet's output.
Imported from 21份标准提炼.md. Updated 2026-09-25. Last reviewed 2026-09-25
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