Award Winning Jasmine Golden Buds Black Tea

Jasmine black tea is an innovative combination of jasmine flower and traditional black tea, which gives the tea both a jasmine fragrance and a black tea mellow taste. Traditionally, jasmine tea is mainly made of green tea. The reason why we don’t use black tea is that black tea belongs to fermented tea, when scented with jasmine flowers, the tea may easily get over fermented, so that may affects its good quality. Therefore, in order to make a successful jasmine black tea, the conditions of scenting and the selection of black tea buds must be very strict. For instance, the tea buds should be very tender, well-stretched, and are good at aroma fusion. Generally, a jasmine black tea which can be successfully scented over five times is very rare.

TeaVivre’s Jasmine Golden Buds Black Tea is made by the single tea buds of Yunnan large-leaf tea bush species, and scented with the jasmine flowers from Hengxian, Guangxi. This is the first jasmine flavored black tea in TeaVivre. When brewing, the first smell is its fresh jasmine fragrance, and it will never be overwhelming. The tea liquid is sweet, smooth and mellow. To have a cup of jasmine black tea at our leisure time, feeling the spread of jasmine and tea’s aroma in our mouth must be a joyful thing.

San Yin Yi Ti

After the tea leaves are scented with the budding jasmine flowers, these flowers are sifted out for the process to be repeated another three times, each with new flowers. Following this, the flowers with the strongest fragrance are added to the tea, with the aim of further enhancing the aroma and increasing the tea’s freshness and richness; this process is called “San Yin Yi Ti”.

	Cup Method		Chinese Gongfu Method
	Teacup: 12oz / 355ml		Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
	194℉ / 90℃		194℉ / 90℃
	4g Tea		5g Tea
	Brewing time: 3 - 5 mins		7 steeps: rinse, 5s, 10s, 15s, 20s, 25s, 40s, 60s
			Rinse time is around 5 seconds

Nanling Tea Garden is located along the eastern bank of Lancang River, with an average altitude of about 1500 meters. Around this garden are rolling mountains always enveloped in clouds and mist, with the perfect illumination, temperature, and rainfall for tea growth. In addition to this, only organic fertilizers are used, to ensure the safety and natural health of the tea.

Mr. Chen has been learning how to craft tea since he was 15 years old, and specifically with jasmine tea for over 40 years. It has become very familiar to him, and he does it in his own special style, widely sought after by tea lovers.

Mr. Chen has told us “Jasmine tea is one of the most complicated varieties in all of tea-making. With more scenting steps, the process becomes more and more complex, and so too increases the risk of ruining the tea. But on the contrary, it also results in a higher grade of jasmine tea if the scenting is successful. The buds picked in spring will be immediately processed and then stored in the freezer until the jasmine starts to bloom in the summer; because the blooming and time of strongest aroma of the jasmine occurs during the night, it is important that the scenting is done overnight. This often makes the tea workers exhausted… the entire process of making tea is hard, but if you love it, the hardship is worth it.”

Yunnan - Black Tea

Simao is located in Puerh City, Yunnan, and has been praised as the “Chinese tea city”. It is also named Meng La (勐拉), which means it is a place where tea people lived. Simao is the beginning of the Tea Horse Road, or the southern Silk Road in history. It has beautiful mountain ranges and rivers with a pleasant climate, the weather warm in winter and cool in summer.

Guangxi – Jasmine Flower

Produced in Guangxi, China, the jasmine used to scent this tea has earned primacy nationwide. The most outstanding area of production is Hengxian in Guangxi, known as “the city of Chinese jasmine” for its ability to produce both high-yield and high-quality flowers.

Yunnan Large-leaf tea tree is a rare tea varieties in the world. It is a kind which is best to make puerh tea. Yunnan has unique advantage in its geographical position, it is rich in rainfall and its proper temperature is good for planting large-leaf tea trees. The tea leaves from this kind of tea varieties growing in this perfect environment are abundant in polyphenols, catechins, amino acids, caffeine content.