Most jasmine tea is green tea scented with jasmine. Sloane's Jasmine Snow Dragon takes it to a whole other level: the green tea leaves are hand-rolled around slivers of bamboo, then scented with seven times their weight in fresh jasmine blossoms. That's nearly twice the jasmine of Sloane's everyday Jasmine Mist. It's beautiful and very fragrant.
Brew it cooler than black tea, at 80°C for 3 minutes, with 1 tsp per 350ml. Hotter water pulls bitterness out of green tea and flattens the jasmine. Drink it straight, hot or iced.
Also available as a Tea for Three sample, which is the easy way to try it first.
From Sloane Fine Tea in Ontario.
150g pouch.
INGREDIENTS: China green tea, jasmine flowers.
