Junshan Yinzhen (; Standard Chinese pronunciation ) is a yellow tea from Junshan Island of the

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. It is considered to be China's rarest tea and one of the Ten Chinese Famous Teas. Although the same kind of tea trees are also planted around

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, where Junshan Island is located, those teas should not be called Junshan Yinzhen. The tea resembles the

White tea White tea may refer to one of several styles of tea which generally feature young or minimally processed leaves of the ''Camellia sinensis'' plant. Currently there is no generally accepted definition of white tea and very little international ...

Yinzhen known as Bai Hao Yinzhen. Junshan Yinzhen, allegedly the preferred tea of Chairman

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, is a rare tea sometimes sold as

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