Jasmine Tea is produced and sold in the largest amount among all the scented tea. It has many subvarieties differing from base tea and jasmine flower. There are Jasmine Silver, Jasmine Pearl, Jasmine Ball, Jasmine Silver Bud and more to name. They all share the same characteristic in taste and fragrance.Our Jasmine Tea is from the Jasmine Tea base in Guangxi Province. The jasmine dragon balls that we offer come from Fujian province and Fine quality of green tea is used as a base.

Jasmine tea

Appearance Leaf: The leaves are even. Some buds are covered with pekoe.

Infusion: Bright yellow

Taste: It is strong and brisk.

Fragrance: Fresh and heavy, long-lasting

Origin: Heng County, Guangxi Province

Harvest Time: Spring, 2008

Jasmine Dragon Balls

Appearance Leaf: Tightly rolled tender green buds into the shape of a ball.

Infusion: Golden yellow

Taste: Mellow, soft and mild

Fragrance: Mild jasmine fragrance

Origin: Anxi, Fujian

Harvest: Green tea base from spring harvest, scenting with jamine flower June 2008

To brew Jasmine green tea, first put dry tea leaves (ratio leaves to water, 1:30) in Gaiwan, porcelain or glass teapot, then pour 95 degree boiled water into the teaware. Steeping time for first round can be up to 10 to 15 seconds. Steeping time can be prolonged with each subsequent brew. This tea can be brewed for 5 rounds.Since this tea has a rather strong and brisk aroma we advice not to let it steep too long. ( up to twenty second for the first brew will be sufficient)

Jasmine tea was said to be invented by Beijing tea merchant Chen Gu Qiu long time ago. There is a story about how Chen had come to the idea of such combination. On one winter day, Chen invited a connoisseur of tea to discuss tea in Northern China. During the talk and drink, Chen all of sudden thought of a pack of tea from a southern girl that never had been drunk. He got the tea out and brewed it in a gaiwan. Extraordinary fragrance was emitted when lid was removed. To everyone’s amazement there appeared a heavenly beauty in the ascending steam holding jasmine flowers in both hands. It disappeared within a few second. The tea connnoisseur explained to the bewildered Chen that she was the legendary “Obligation-repaying Fairy” they had never seen. Chen then recalled the origin of this tea. Three years before, he came across a wretched girl in an inn when he was purchasing tea in the South. The girl’s father past away and had not been buried due to a lack of money. Chen felt great sympathy for this girl and gave her some money. He also employed her neighbors to help her in moving her to a relative’s home. Three years past by and he came to the same place. The owner of the inn handed him a pack of tea that the girl had left for him. Chen had not opened the pack and had not drank it so far. It turned out to be an unusual tea. The connoisseur further explained that this kind of tea required the maker to spend all his/her energy and he was afraid that the girl was not alive any more. Chen told him that inn owner had said the girl past away one year before. They both sighed with a tinge of emotion. The connoisseur thought: why did the girl hold jasmine flowers instead of something else? The image of the girl holding jasmine flowers reappeared at the second infusion. Chen realized that it might be a hint from the Tea Fairy. Next year he experimentally mixed jasmine flowers into (green) tea. This aromatic jasmine tea has become very popular among the people in Northern China. Thus a new tea was created.