Brewing Recommendation: This tea is best brewed gungfu style in a small Yixing teapot but any teapot or large stainless steel tea ball will produce delicious results. Use 2 tsp of tea to brew one 8 oz. cup. Pour boiling water directly over leaves. Brew for 20 seconds to 1 minute. This tea can be used for many infusions.

Harvest Period:(Ming Qian Cha)

Jasmine tea is honored as the most fragrant and popular scented Chinese tea in the world. This tea is light and delicate while leaving a long-lasting floral aroma along with every cup. By leaving it scented multiple times with both jasmine and magnolia flowers, a uniquely warm fragrance has been created that is both warm and delicious

About Bai Hao Tea

This white tea with a white downy appearance comes from the province of Hunan. White tipped Silver Needle is one of the most well known white teas, and is picked during the spring before the buds open to preserve its tenderness. Exquisite and delicate, the tea produces a pale yellow brew and has a fresh, sweet fragrance with traces of citrus. This tea has high concentrations of polyphenols (antioxidants that help fight against cancer-causing radicals and heart disease). An excellent alternative to many green teas.

This particular Chinese white tea holds a very graceful form. The leaves are even, strong, straight, and full with fine white hairs. The Bai Hao Yin Zhen is only made with buds, which are harvested from the Fuding Da Bai Hao and the Zheng He Da Bai Hao trees. The liquor holds a light apricot color and the taste is fresh and delicate with a pleasent high fragrance. This tea is a very good daily tea. It is also recommended as an efficacious remedy for the hives.

Tips : When you brew Chinese white tea in a gaiwan, always leave a little bit of tea in the gaiwan between each infusion. This is call “the root” and will allow you to get the best of the green tea