GRAND JASMIN MU DAN

Rare and sculpted tea from the Chinese Fujian province. This very spectacular tea is prepared using long silver tips and young tender leaves, to which freshly plucked jasmine flowers are added. To retain the tea's mild flavour, these flowers are finally delicately removed by hand. Silver tips and young leaves are sewn together by hand with an amaranth flower, before being shaped into a ball. Only just visible when the tea is in its dried form, the amaranth bud is released into the cup after being infused for a few minutes. As it opens up, the tea forms the amazing shape of a flower with a pink heart. A few pink petals detach themselves and float to the surface of the cup. This exceptionally delicate work is only matched by the tea's equally fine flavour, as the softness of the green tea reveals to be the perfect complement to the subtlety of the jasmine.

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JASMINE PEARLS

Very rare and available very sporadically, the Jasmine Pearls are produced using best quality green tea leaves. They are rolled by hand into tiny round balls. By being folded in the leaf preserves the delicate fragrance of the jasmine flower with which it was scented. This spectacular tea produces a beverage of the highest quality: the softness of the green tea is the perfect complement to the subtlety of the jasmine. The roundness and the smoothness of the beverage feels like a pearl of tea to the palate. A jasmine tea must !

JASMINE SILVER NEEDLES

Origin: China, province of Fujian
Tea colour: white tea
Length of infusion: 3'
Water temperature: 75°C

Dry leaves
Appearance: spectacular plucking, composed entirely of long, silvery and twisted buds.
Colour: pale gold.
Scents: highly floral jasmine bouquet, both rich and complex. Evokes the scent of fresh flowers: notes of red fruits with animal undertones.

Brewed leaves (infusion)
Scents: this bouquet reappears on infusion with heightened intensity. The jasmine is powerful and complex, the wild strawberry note full-bodied. Surprisingly powerful!

Liquor
Colour: pale.
Texture: supple.
Aromas: the jasmine is well developed, balanced and full: the very distinct floral note of jasmine is combined with an intensely fresh and planty note, as well as a fruity note of wild strawberry.
Aromatic profile and length in the mouth: the overall effect is very long-lasting, with a delicious minty freshness.

Our verdict: a very elegant tea, which has achieved the level of the finest Chinese jasmine teas: Jasmine Pearls. A very small quantity of this tea is harvested and flavoured seven times with fresh jasmine flowers, connoisseurs are sure to be delighted by its opulence and complexity.

GRAND JASMIN MAO FENG

'Hair tips'. A very rare jasmine tea composed almost entirely of tips. This tea disappeared for a long time before the Fujian province began producing it again in very small quantities. It contains no flowers; they are removed to avoid bitterness when the tea is infused. The smoothness of the liquor and its subtle bouquet makes this an exceptional tea.

GRAND JASMIN DAO REN MAO FENG BIO

China organic green tea scented with jasmine. From the Dao Ren farm in Zhejiang province.
Organic jasmine and an excellent organic green tea combine beautifully to produce this wonderful tea with an intoxicating aroma. To ensure the infusion is not bitter, all the flowers have been removed by hand.

GRAND JASMIN CHUNG FENG

One of the best jasmine green teas. Nearly all the flowers have been removed and there is a high proportion of tips. A remarkable tea, which allows the jasmine bouquet to develop fully after a 3 minute infusion.

GRAND JASMIN MONKEY KING

“Harvest of the Monkeys”. Legend has it that monkeys were trained to pick the highest shoots of wild tea plants. Few flowers and a small leaf, like Chun Feng tea.

JASMINE FLOWER

A China green tea scented with jasmine. Contains white tips and jasmine flowers.

ROSE DE CHINE (CHINA ROSE)

“China Rose”. As with as jasmine teas, rose petals are mixed with the tea leaves, except that in this case it is not necessary to remove them, since they do not make the infusion bitter.
Chinese Qimen tea and rose petals.

LOTUS

Black tea and lotus petals.