Jing tea, which is quickly becoming my fav tea purveyor have a facinating post on the art/practice of scenting green tea with jasmine flowers.
July/August, is the jasmine flowering season (in Pakistan too, incidentally - i'm writing this post on a laptop sitting at my favourite spot - beside flowering indian jasmine shrubs) and jing have some very cool photographs of the long process of getting the green tea to absord the heady jasmine aroma.
Jasmine has to be among my very favourite green teas, rinsed and made with water at c.80 - its usually breakfast for me.
I havent yet had a chance to try Jing's jasmine tea, but from the sounds of it they should be pretty good, def a must once the new season tea is in stock.
Update: Jing now also have a video of the jasmine pearl rolling process. They may have their detractors, but their website really is the best i've seen yet for tea aficionados http://jingtea.com/#node_id_3342
The video is now embedded below. I was looking at the stats for this page the other day, it seems it slowly becoming a mecca for people googlinge 'jing tea overpriced' and its (surprisingly many) derivatives. As of this moment, since I havent had their jasmine pearl tea yet, ill obstain from taking a real view because if there is one thing my early steps in loose-tea leaf land have taught me, great tea doesnt come cheap :)
July/August, is the jasmine flowering season (in Pakistan too, incidentally - i'm writing this post on a laptop sitting at my favourite spot - beside flowering indian jasmine shrubs) and jing have some very cool photographs of the long process of getting the green tea to absord the heady jasmine aroma.
Jasmine has to be among my very favourite green teas, rinsed and made with water at c.80 - its usually breakfast for me.
I havent yet had a chance to try Jing's jasmine tea, but from the sounds of it they should be pretty good, def a must once the new season tea is in stock.
Update: Jing now also have a video of the jasmine pearl rolling process. They may have their detractors, but their website really is the best i've seen yet for tea aficionados http://jingtea.com/#node_id_3342
The video is now embedded below. I was looking at the stats for this page the other day, it seems it slowly becoming a mecca for people googlinge 'jing tea overpriced' and its (surprisingly many) derivatives. As of this moment, since I havent had their jasmine pearl tea yet, ill obstain from taking a real view because if there is one thing my early steps in loose-tea leaf land have taught me, great tea doesnt come cheap :)