Green · Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Jasmine Pearls
Low caffeine
Hand-rolled green tea scented over nights with fresh jasmine blossoms: perfume without a drop of oil.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 80 °C · 176 °F
- Leaf
- 3 g
- Water
- 200 ml
- First steep
- 2:00
- Each next steep
- +0:30
- Steeps
- 3
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
jasmine · honeysuckle · fresh butter
Tasting notes
floral · silky · lingering
Harvest
April–May
Making
Plucking 
Firing 
Rolling 
Scenting 
Sorting
Origin
Fuzhou, Fujian · China
Fuzhou's tea waits: picked in spring, it rests until the summer jasmine. The city lives on that rendezvous.
Lore
Fuzhou has scented tea with jasmine since at least the Qing dynasty: blossoms picked at noon open at night against the resting leaf, then are sifted away, and the round repeats up to seven times. Nothing is added but patience; the tea simply remembers the flowers.
