Jasmine · Floral · Sweet
Our finest and most exquisite jasmine, scented seven times over. Pearl Jasmine starts from a high grade of young, tender spring green tea, then is scented again and again with fresh jasmine blossoms, seven or more times, far beyond the single scenting of an ordinary jasmine. The scented leaves are hand-rolled into small pearls that unfurl as they steep, releasing a pronounced fresh-green and floral aroma, a full-bodied, refreshing, sweet taste, and a long, delicately floral finish. The cup pours a soft, light peach colour. Origin: Fujian, China · spring green base Tasting: Jasmine · Floral · Sweet Brew: 70 to 80°C · 3g / 150ml · 3 to 5 minutes · 3+ infusions
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 cup 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.
Pearl Jasmine
Pearl Jasmine is our finest and most exquisite jasmine tea. What sets it apart is the scenting. A typical jasmine tea is scented once with jasmine petals; Pearl Jasmine is scented seven or more times, layered again and again with fresh blossoms to build a deep, pronounced jasmine aroma that an ordinary jasmine never reaches.
The base is a very high grade of young, tender green tea. After scenting, the leaves are hand-rolled into small pearls that unfurl as they steep, releasing a fresh-green and floral scent, a full-bodied, refreshing, sweet taste, and a long, delicately floral finish. The cup pours a soft, light peach color, clean and bright.
The Craft
Jasmine tea is made by marrying two harvests. The green tea is picked in spring; the jasmine flowers are 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, then the spent flowers are sifted out the next morning.
For an everyday jasmine that happens once. For Pearl Jasmine it is repeated seven or more times, fresh blossoms each round, the leaf taking on more and more of the aroma with every scenting while the spent flowers are always removed so only the fragrance remains, never the petals. It is slow, careful, and costly, which is why a true multi-scented jasmine is uncommon.
Only after the scenting is finished are the leaves hand-rolled into their small pearls and dried, sealing the aroma into a form that keeps and that opens beautifully in the cup.
Flavor
Brew Pearl Jasmine 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. A covered glass or ceramic cup lets you watch the pearls slowly unfurl, and the hotter the water or the more leaf you use, the shorter the steep should be.
The aroma lifts pronounced and floral over a fresh green-tea base. The taste is full-bodied, refreshing and sweet, with no bitterness when brewed cool, and the finish is a long, delicately sweet jasmine note that lingers. The pearls open fully across the session and give three or more infusions before the fragrance fades.
Tasting Notes
Pronounced fresh jasmine over a clean young-green-tea base — the aroma of seven scentings, floral but never perfumey.
Full-bodied, refreshing and sweet, the jasmine carried on a fresh green tea body, with no bitterness when brewed cool.
Long and delicately sweet, a soft floral note that lingers gently after the cup is set down.
Across the session韻
Unfurling
In a covered glass cup the pearls slowly open, the liquor turning a soft, light peach and the jasmine lifting off the surface.
Full bloom
The leaf fully open, the cup at its most expressive — pronounced jasmine, full sweet body, fresh green underneath.
Soft tail
The jasmine softens to a gentle floral sweetness; the green base carries the last clean, refreshing infusions.
Unfurling
In a covered glass cup the pearls slowly open, the liquor turning a soft, light peach and the jasmine lifting off the surface.
Full bloom
The leaf fully open, the cup at its most expressive — pronounced jasmine, full sweet body, fresh green underneath.
Soft tail
The jasmine softens to a gentle floral sweetness; the green base carries the last clean, refreshing infusions.
