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Nepali Himalayan First Flush White Loose Leaf White Tea

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£32.99
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88p per cup

Style

An exquisitely fruity and floral white tea with notes of mango, vanilla and elderflower. A beautifully light tea with almost no astringency but rich in flavour.

Tasting Notes

Silky texture with fruity and floral notes of mango, vanilla, violet and elderflower. Almost like a very elegant Solero ice lolly.

Cost Per Cup

88p per cup based on 2g of tea per 150ml of water and 3 infusions.

Origin

Jun Chiyabari tea garden, Dhankuta district, Nepal

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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use 75°C water.

  • Time

    Infuse for 2 minutes, tasting regularly.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse this tea at least three times. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

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More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

If you have tried white tea in a teabag you may be forgiven for thinking our description is pure hyperbole.

But this is nothing like an industrial white tea, and it really goes beyond what you might expect from even the best loose leaf white tea we have ever tried.

You can taste the pure terroir of the Jun Chiyabari Tea Garden. This non-intervention farm is so rich in clean air, fertile soil, biodiversity and love.

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Delicately plucked at the very start of the spring first flush, just as the bushes come out of their quiet winter period when they stop growing and bide their time until the warmth returns to the mountains.

Jun Chiyabari is the highest tea garden that we work with, and the spring growth is slow to emerge but when it does, it brings with it exceptional flavour. There is an incredible intensity to this loose leaf white tea, that will simply knock your socks off.

Not only does this sublime white tea make a delicious hot tea, but it also works beautifully to make a cold infused iced tea. Cold infusion tea (also known as cold brew tea) allows only the sweetest flavours to dissolve. It does take patience but 6 to 7 grams (0.21 to 0.25oz) left to steep in cold water in the fridge overnight will make the most refreshing loose leaf breakfast tea, calorie-free and rich in antioxidants.

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Returns

The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.

In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any tea or teaware you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*

In most instances we will give you a full refund of the item’s cost excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us. Customers in the European Union have a statutory cooling-off period of fourteen days that is not affected by this guarantee, but any tea pouches much remained sealed for this to be in effect.

*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within two months of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.

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