Dragon Well Green Tea, Long Jing, what a treat!

I know I must have had Dragon-Well teas in the past, the taste is very familiar to me but I certainly have never made it myself. When I opened the sample from Teavivre, I was amazed at the beauty of this tea, the color, the feather-light leaves, it is really, very, intensely fun to open up a package and see and feel and smell something this novel for the first time. God, I love first times, don't you? Addictive things. Maybe that is one of the reasons teas resonate with me, I get to be a first-timer over and over again.
I steeped five grams in my celadon pot which holds 175ml. I was afraid to use more tea, I am so over the bitterness of all the Japanese greens I have worked with over the past two years, so I am glad I went light on the 'gramage'!
Look at these leaves, imagine sifting them through your fingers. It would be as wonderful as you imagine.

One rinse, and then first brew at around 190f, flash brewed. Very nice, verdant, fresh and grassy as one would expect. No hint of bitterness and none arriving late on my tongue as the tea melts away. Second and third brew, steeped longer, perhaps 20 seconds as I was slightly detained by a one pound black Chihuahua puppy named Olive who ran off with my knock-off Birkenstock, ( How she managed to get it across the room is a miracle and I am sorry I missed the visuals of that!) and the tea is still full bodied, yet light and very drinkable. I think I will purchase the higher grade of Dragon Well Teavivre offers as I like this one enough that I would drink it everyday, but why not have the best? Life is short.