Jasmine Silver Tip Tea Tin by Rare Tea Company 25g
Brand: Rare Tea Company
A Chinese White tea, also known as Jasmine Silver
Needle, made entirely from the first tender leaf buds of Spring.
Not flavoured but carefully scented over six consecutive nights
with fresh jasmine flowers. Once the preserve of the Chinese
Imperial family. A deep and heady aroma with a light, gentle
flavour and a natural sweetness. This tea is not flavoured and
contains no additives or oils. The delicate leaf buds (silver tips)
are laid out on bamboo trays with fresh blossom over six
consecutive nights. Through the night the downy buds absorb the
scent of the jasmine. Each morning the flowers are discarded, and
each night fresh jasmine is layered through the tea in a sealed
room to impart their fragrance. This is done in the summer months
when the jasmine flowers are at their peak and the blossoms are
picked as ripe buds. Each afternoon the pickers go out into the
jasmine fields. The harvest requires incredible skill to select
only the flowers just at the point of opening – too soon and they
will remain tight shut, too late and they will have already
released their scent. In the sealed scenting rooms, the heat and
humidity unfurls the buds, releasing their aroma directly into the
tea
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