Silver Tip Jasmine White Tea

Name: Silver Tip Jasmine White Tea
Brand: Rare Tea Company
Price: 0.99 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (50 reviews)

£0.99

(33p per cup)

Style

3g Sachet

25g Pouch

25g Tin

Quantity

A Chinese White tea, also known as Jasmine Silver Needle, made entirely from the first tender leaf buds of Spring. Not flavoured but carefully scented over six consecutive nights with fresh jasmine flowers. Once the preserve of the Chinese Imperial family.

"Tea of this quality is extremely hard to find." Henrietta Lovell.

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14 October 2021

Georgina F.

United Kingdom

Delightful

At first I thought it would be a little overpowering with how strong it smelt but it's wonderful. Especially good when you're full of a cold, a good robust taste.

25 September 2021

Nina S.

United Kingdom

Excellent: as expected.

Having tried a few loose leaf teas from Rare Tea, I decided it would be a worth while purchase to buy a box for myself. It had the fragrant cleanliness of a jasmine tea and the roundness of a leaf properly scented through. An excellent purchase with the satisfaction of knowing that the leaves are guaranteed to make a proper brew each time!

12 September 2021

Anne H.

United Kingdom

I was very disappointed in this particular blend of this tea. I loved my previous jasmine tea from RTC and it still had a beautiful fragrance in August, even though it was past its best before date of Jan 2021. Comparing my 'new' tea with its previous version - I definately prefer the one before. I am blessed with a very good sense of smell, but can only get a hint of the jasmine in the 'new' tea and that is quickly lost and becomes rather dull to smell and to taste. Having decided to settle on RTC , I am now wondering whether to look elsewhere

27 August 2021

Alice R.

United Kingdom

Beautiful Delicate Flavour

Unlike any white tea I have tasted before. This is a refined and delicate flavour, which I now can't be without! I also love the caddy it comes with.

19 July 2021

David

United Kingdom

A refined treat...

I bought this tea on a whim and I am so glad that I did. The tea has an amazing flavour and it is well worth carving some time out to sit and enjoy its delicate yet fulfilling flavours with nothing else to distract from the pleasure of the taste: It is almost a meditation. A pure treat.

Tasting Notes

A deep and heady aroma with a light, gentle flavour and a natural sweetness.

Quantity

Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.

Temperature

For the optimum infusion use 70°C (158°F) water.

Time

Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.

Infusions

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

Cost Per Cup

33p per cup based on 2g of tea per 150ml of water and 2 infusions.

Fuding, Fujian

China

Jasmine

Fresh Flowers

This tea is not flavoured and contains no additives or oils.

The delicate leaf buds (silver tips) are laid out on bamboo trays with fresh blossom over six consecutive nights. Through the night the downy buds absorb the scent of the jasmine. Each morning the flowers are discarded, and each night fresh jasmine is layered through the tea in a sealed room to impart their fragrance.

This is done in the summer months when the jasmine flowers are at their peak and the blossoms are picked as ripe buds. Each afternoon the pickers go out into the jasmine fields. The harvest requires incredible skill to select only the flowers just at the point of opening – too soon and they will remain tight shut, too late and they will have already released their scent.

In the sealed scenting rooms, the heat and humidity unfurls the buds, releasing their aroma directly into the tea.

pure tea with pure flowers

No artificial flavours

Once the preserve of Emperors this is simply the finest jasmine tea available anywhere.

A grade above Jasmine Pearls, this is a more delicate and elegant white tea– made with greater skill, and a higher grade of pick- resulting in an altogether sweeter tea with incomparable flavour.

Jasmine tea can be made using any tea as a base and is most often flavoured with oils or synthetic flavourings to mask low grade leaves and a sprinkling of flowers to make it look natural. Our Silver Tip Jasmine is pure tea, scented with pure flowers.