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Silver Tip Jasmine Loose Leaf White Tea

61 reviews
£11.49
(33p per cup)
19824 in stock

A Chinese White loose leaf 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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CJ
03 February 2023
Char J.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

So so fragrant - truly delicious

At first sip, this tea has skyrocketed to my all time favourite. I now start every day with a pot. As a long time lover of jasmine tea, this is the most jasmine-y I've ever had, absolutely delicious.

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SC
13 October 2022
Sarah C.
Australia Australia

The best jasmine tea available

Wonderful tea, better than any jasmine tea you can get elsewhere. I am a repeat buyer of this tea, I love it,

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AT
23 September 2022
Alastair T.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

An exception product

This tea has a fine delicate colour, fragrance and flavour that is so refreshing. Thoroughly recommend this tea.

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DB
13 September 2022
Donna B.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

Absolutely wonderful Jasmine Tea

This Jasmine tea (as with all the Rare Tea offerings) is top quality. Refreshing, clear and with a little sweetness, it is a true delight to drink.

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SG
22 May 2022
Sharon G.
United Kingdom United Kingdom

A beautiful softly scented tea

I first had this tea aboard Fred Olsen Ship Borealis, where I went to a tea tasting event. The staff of the Bookmark cafe gave us a taste of several of your teas, and the lovely Sommelier gave us all the information on each tea we tasted, but I particularly enjoyed this one for its lovely light perfume and taste. I would thoroughly recommend it.

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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

I thought I hated jasmine tea - that it was bitter, astringent and overpowering. This tea however, is soft, surprisingly sweet and very subtly scented - it feels more like an evening wander in summer than anything else. Would definitely recommend.

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R. Chapman

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.

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David

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.  

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