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Duyun

A Guizhou prefecture producing Duyun Mao Jian, a downy curled green tea from a province that grows a great deal of tea and exports most of it anonymously into other regions' blends.

都勻China800–1200 metres

Elevation

Recorded at 800–1200 metres.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.

When it is picked

An early Guizhou spring at altitude, with a bud-standard pick. The province warms earlier than the lower Yangtze and its plateau gardens sit high enough to slow growth, which is the combination its recent expansion has been built on.

How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.

How the name is written

Also transliterated as du yun. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.

Teas this region is known for

  • Duyun Mao Jian — Sharper and more mineral than the famous Zhejiang greens, with a floral top note. The heavy leaf down clouds the liquor, which is characteristic rather than a fault.

Other growing regions in China

The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.

Sources

  • TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ

This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.

How TeaHQ handles sources

Written comparisons

Where TeaHQ has set this region against something it is routinely confused with, and argued the differences out in full.

  • Meitan vs Duyun — Guizhou grows an enormous quantity of tea and exports most of it anonymously into other regions’ blends. These are its two named districts: one built around a research station, the other around a historic tea name, and neither has the reputation its output would justify.
  • Xinyang vs Duyun — Both produce a tea called Mao Jian, and the name describes a leaf style rather than a place — downy tips, tightly worked. The two are grown at opposite ends of China’s tea belt and taste it.