Yunnan White Jasmine

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Perfume, Bitter, Flowers, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Musty, Floral, Sweet, Vegetal, Smooth, Fruity, White Grapes, Cream, Green Beans, Melon, Strawberry, Vanilla, Apricot, Grass, Honeydew, Mango, Marshmallow, Oats, Peach, Creamy, Candy, Hay, Pine, Sweet, Warm Grass, Honey, Pepper, Peppercorn, Spicy, Blueberry, Apple, Spices, Sugar, Banana, Cinnamon, Caramel, Custard, Frosting, Grain, Pastries
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Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Fair Trade
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 10 oz / 291 ml

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From Verdant Tea

Wang Yanxin’s iconic wild Yunnan white tea blended with night jasmine blossoms has been one of our most popular teas for over a decade! Notes of luscious creamy jasmine, juicy strawberry, eucalyptus, and whipped cream.

This spring harvest pre-Qing Ming white tea is traditionally scented and made with Da Bai varietal white tea. This white tea is not sprayed with artificial oils or aromas. Instead, it is dried together with fresh jasmine blossoms scattered among the buds, allowing the natural aroma of the jasmine to absorb over several days into the tea itself. The process of adding fresh wild Yunnan jasmine blossoms is repeated six times over six days to get a full rich and creamy infusion that holds its intense sweetness and natural potency over many steepings. The creamy dessert-like Yunnan silver needle white tea is the perfect delicate pairing with Lincang’s local luscious jasmine.

Sourced By Wang Yanxin
Small farmers and micro-workshops across Yunnan are often denied the chance to show off their incredible work, overshadowed by big labels. Wang Yanxin believes in small producers, helping them reach a wide audience without big brand labels.

The result is pristine, hand-finished tea, aged offerings and regional collaborations that inspire new styles. Wang Yanxin has devoted her career and formidable palate to these collaborations, searching far and wide for the very best.

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Because I live in SoCal, a summery day can appear out of nowhere even in the middle of the winter. This and other white teas have always been my go-to for those kinds of days. This one is perfect because it is delicate, cooling, and very sweet. I don’t know about you guys but when I brew this it actually comes out white/ivory when other white teas I brew usually just come out brown. It really is a nice aesthetic. Verdant wasn’t lying when they said this has rock candy notes! Rock candy, the German rock sugar from Teavana, it all comes back to me when I drink this. I also detect some fruity notes in the mix? Not quite a tropical fruit and not quite something like an apple. Something that would probably be pink but I don’t know what haha. With all this taken into account, this tea is the perfect companion to a sunny day.

Preparation
140 °F / 60 °C 1 min, 30 sec

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I love jasmine. I have always loved jasmine; as an elementary schooler, I insisted on eating jasmine rice and drinking jasmine tea whenever my mother would let me. She thought it was kind of strange, but went along with it. This tea is, without a doubt, the best jasmine tea I have ever tasted. It’s light, it’s sweet without being cloying, everything about it tastes fresh and natural and makes my taste buds start a happy dance. I’ve noticed that with a lot of jasmine teas, there is a sense of artificial flavor, like they just sprayed a perfume over the leaves instead of scenting the tea naturally with jasmine flowers. I don’t get any sense of chemicals or artificial flavor or anything from this lovely, lovely tea. Just fresh, clear, deliciousness. My boyfriend opened up my new shipment tonight, and he kept on smelling the bag for the next 10 minutes, he was so enamored with the scent. He got the first steep, though I’ve taken all subsequent ones. I believe I’m on the third or fourth steep, and the jasmine flavor has receded a bit, but the tea is still holding out. It tastes a little like beans to me, actually, but I’m also kind of hungry and may just be imagining things. What a lovely tea to review for my first ever tasting note.

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53 tasting notes

Fragrance is spot on, but wasn’t a particularly wowing tea. Will try again, maybe with some more leaves. The buds barely opened, so I imagine there was a lot of flavor left, though I left the leaves sitting too long, and discarded them. The fragrance had mostly washed away anyway.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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353 tasting notes

This may supercede milk oolong as my favorite tea. This tea is absolutely scrumptious. I oversteeped this deliberately to make it more flavorful, and the second steeping was just as strong. I didn’t try for a third steeping because it was long past bedtime at that point.

The flavor of this is fantastic. Smooth, and almost silky. The jasmine is subtle and complements the white tea. It’s a very nice tea. I love it.

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I received a small sample of this tea about two years ago, when I received my first order from Verdant. It was the first white tea I can remember ever liking. Up until then my experience had been limited to bagged white tea; flavored, more often than not. (And not flavored in any way that added to the tea.) I picked up a couple of ounces of this last month, although I hadn’t drank it in some time.

This is a review of the 2014 Spring harvest.

Method:
3tsp/10oz
Pre-boiling
First steep: 35sec
Second steep: 55sec
Third steep: 1min 15sec
Fourth steep: 1min 40sec

The first steep is laden with the taste of fresh jasmine, cream, and a hint of banana with a silky texture. It makes me think of vanilla custard. There’s an almost bubblegum candy-like sweetness. In subsequent infusions it develops notes of pine, spice, and honeysuckle. The mouthfeel is thick and the flavors juicy. I don’t enjoy it as much as I expected to. My tastes have changed; I don’t generally prefer light, floral teas. I knew it would be floral because of the jasmine, but in the first couple of steeps it’s nearly all that I taste. Flowers.

I tried brewing it a different way. This time I used 2tsp of leaf, water somewhere between 160-170 degrees, and steeped for five minutes. I much preferred this method. The jasmine isn’t as overwhelmingly strong, and I’m able to pick out notes of cereal, marshmallow, whipped cream, and pastries. The flavors of light banana pudding and pine are also present. It’s like a light, fluffy dessert with buttercream frosting. There’s a thick creamy finish that lingers long after sipping, and it’s paired with the faint flavors of grain and oat—like oatmeal. I might try grandpa style brewing with this tea eventually.

Flavors: Banana, Candy, Creamy, Custard, Frosting, Grain, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Marshmallow, Oats, Pastries, Pine, Spices, Vanilla

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I found this to be very, very jasmine. The floral scent was just a bit too intense for me… and the tea itself didn’t exactly wow me either. But I’m not the biggest fan of white teas in the first place, so I guess there’s really no surprise there. There’s a bit more in the sample bag, so I guess I’ll try again a little later.

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When i saw this White Jasmine I had to try it. I must admit to being a fan of “straight” white tea because its subtle taste can easily be overpowered by other natural ingredients, but as a jasmine this tea was quite fine if a bit overpowering of the subtle white tea flavor.

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