Jasmine · Fresh · Sweet
Our first grade, a very high-quality Taiwan jasmine. The base is a young green tea grown in Taiwan, picked small and slim, then scented with fresh jasmine petals multiple times, well beyond the single scenting of an ordinary jasmine. The cup pours a light yellowish-green with a sweet floral scent over fresh green-tea undertones, a sweet and refreshing taste, and a delicately sweet, lingering finish. Origin: Taiwan · spring green base Tasting: Jasmine · Fresh · Sweet Brew: 70 to 80°C · 3g / 150ml · 3 to 5 minutes
Brewing Guide
Jasmine green tea is the quiet, fragrant cup of an unhurried afternoon. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the green-tea base is read as gently cooling and clearing, while the jasmine scent is associated with easing tension and lifting the mood, which is why a fragrant jasmine is so often reached for to slow down and settle the mind.
The young green-tea base carries the catechins and L-theanine of a high-grade green tea, the amino acid behind green tea's calm-alert character, and the aroma itself does real work: the scent of jasmine has been studied for its calming, mood-lifting effect. None of this is a medical claim. It does explain why a good jasmine tea feels as much like aromatherapy as a drink.
Tradition
The fragrant afternoon cup for slowing down — a clearing, settling tea that lifts the mood without heaviness.
Modern lens
The young green-tea base carries L-theanine for green tea's steady, calm-alert character, paired with a gentle caffeine level.
Tradition
Jasmine is the scent of ease in Chinese tea culture, reached for to settle the mind and lift a low mood.
Modern lens
The aroma of jasmine itself has been studied for a calming, mood-lifting effect — the cup works as much through scent as taste.
Tradition
A green tea at heart — drunk as a daily clearing, refreshing cup.
Modern lens
The high-grade young green-tea base is rich in catechins, the well-studied green-tea antioxidants.
Tradition
Light, sweet and refreshing, the cup poured all through a warm afternoon.
Modern lens
Brewed cool, it is a low-astringency, easy-drinking cup that refreshes without weight.
The Reserve
Huatan Reserve is our first grade, a very high-quality Taiwan jasmine. The base is a young green tea grown in Taiwan, picked small and slim, then scented with fresh jasmine petals multiple times, well beyond the single scenting of an ordinary jasmine. What reaches the cup is a sweet floral aroma laid over a clean, fresh green-tea body.
The cup pours a light yellowish-green, bright and clear. The taste is sweet and refreshing, the jasmine carried on the fresh green base rather than sitting on top of it, and the finish is delicately sweet and lingering. It is the fragrant, easy cup of an unhurried afternoon.
The Craft
Jasmine tea marries two harvests: the green tea picked in spring, and the jasmine flowers gathered in high summer and held until evening, when the buds open and are at their most fragrant. The tea and the blossoms are layered together so the dry leaf drinks in the scent overnight, and the spent flowers are sifted out the next morning so only the fragrance stays, never the petals.
An everyday jasmine is scented once. Huatan jasmine is scented many times over, fresh blossoms each round, the slim green leaf taking on more aroma with every pass. It is slow and costly work, which is why a true multi-scented jasmine is uncommon.
The leaf itself stays loose and whole rather than rolled, small slim green leaves that open quickly and pour a light, bright cup. Huatan Reserve is the first-grade leaf of that craft, from the same Taiwan source as our Signature and Select grades.
Flavor
Brew it cool, the way a fine green tea wants: water at 70 to 80°C, never boiling, with about three grams of leaf to 150ml of water, steeped three to five minutes. The hotter the water or the more leaf you use, the shorter the steep should be. A covered glass or ceramic cup lets you watch the slim leaves open.
The aroma is a sweet floral jasmine over clean green-tea undertones. The taste is sweet and refreshing, with no bitterness when brewed cool, and the finish is delicately sweet, lingering softly. The light yellowish-green cup stays bright and clean across three or more infusions.
Tasting Notes
Sweet floral jasmine over a clean, fresh green-tea base — the aroma of many scentings, bright and never perfumey.
Sweet and refreshing, the jasmine carried on a fresh green body, smooth with no bitterness when brewed cool.
Delicately sweet and lightly lingering, a soft floral note that fades gently and clean.
Across the session韻
Opening
The slim leaves open quickly, the liquor turning a light yellowish-green and the jasmine lifting off the surface.
Full bloom
The cup at its most expressive — sweet jasmine, fresh green body, clean and refreshing.
Soft tail
The jasmine softens to a delicate sweetness; the fresh green base carries the last clean infusions.
Opening
The slim leaves open quickly, the liquor turning a light yellowish-green and the jasmine lifting off the surface.
Full bloom
The cup at its most expressive — sweet jasmine, fresh green body, clean and refreshing.
Soft tail
The jasmine softens to a delicate sweetness; the fresh green base carries the last clean infusions.
