3 famous kinds of floral tea
naturally scented with real and fresh flower!
Floral Tea have been used for centuries, it is considered as a kind of stress-soothing Tea that helps calm the mind. Everyone loves the pleasant and relaxing floral aroma blended with the Tea. In this Natural Floral Tea Collection, we have curated 3 famous kinds of Chinese floral tea, all of them is naturally scented with real and fresh flower.
What’s included in mastertasting collection #25 ?
Fuzhou Jasmine Pearl Green Tea 2023 (25g)
Sichuan Bi Tan Piao Xue Jasmine Mao Jian 2023 (25g)
Osmanthus Jiu Qu Hong Mei Black Tea 2022 ( 25g )
Highlights of THE month’s box
This month we’re focusing on tasting three famous naturally scented tea. Each of them is scented with natural, real and fresh flower by the traditional scenting process.
- Bi Tan Piao Xue – the most famous floral tea in Sichuan, the petal floating in the clear yellowish-green liquor just look like snow falling in an emerald pond
- Fuzhou Jasmine Pearl Green Tea – specially hand-rolled into a small rounded pearl shape and full of Jasmine aroma
- Osmanthus Jiu Qu Hong Mei Black Tea – the fruity and honey aroma of black tea is well combined with the Osmanthus fragrance and created a unique kind of sweetness.
3 DIFFERENT NATURAL FLOWER SCENTED TEA
Sichuan Bi Tan Piao Xue Jasmine Mao Jian
“Bi Tan Piao Xue” – this beautiful named Green Tea, literally means “Snow falling in an emerald pond”. When brewing this Tea, the petals of Jasmine will fall up and down in the yellowish green liquor.
It is a scented green tea made of Mao Jian/ Tea buds. The Tea buds is harvested in the first flush of Spring from the famous tea mountain – Meng Ding Mountain in Ya’An, Sichuan. The fine and tender tea buds is full of white pekoe, it undergone the traditional scenting process with the Jasmine flower for five times, which last for 60 days. The Tea taste refreshing and is well combined with the jasmine aroma with lingering sweetness.
- Origin: Leshan, Sichuan, China
- Harvest Time: Spring 2023
- Tasting Notes: crisp, refreshing, floral, jasmine, lingering sweetness
When brewing the Tea, the petals just look like snow falling in an emerald pond
Fuzhou Jasmine Pearl Green Tea
This beautiful little pearl tea is a kind of green tea scented with Jasmine flower. It is specially hand-rolled into a small rounded pearl shape. Although the dry leaves looks kind of white with downy pekoe, people sometimes misunderstand it as White Tea, but it is actually a kind of green tea.
The Tea is made of tender tea leaves harvested in the early spring from the high mountain tea garden in Fujian. The fresh leaves is made into Hong Qing Green Tea(Baked Green Tea), which means the Tea is baked for Kill-Green instead of being pan-fired. It undergone the traditional scenting process for eight times, which last for 60 days. The flower is then being picked out of the Tea, and the Tea is being hand-rolled into little pearl shape. The Tea fully absorb the sweet jasmine aroma, and finish with a lingering sweetness.
- Origin: Fuzhou, Fujian, China
- Harvest Time: Spring 2023
Tasting Notes: soft, refreshing , floral , jasmine, lingering sweetness
Osmanthus Jiu Qu Hong Mei Black Tea
The kind of Osmanthus Black Tea here is made of natural Osmanthus flower and Jiu Qu Hong Mei Black Tea. As the taste of Jiu Qu Hong Mei Black Tea are not too strong and does not override the Osmanthus aroma. It is well combined with the Osmanthus fragrance and created a unique kind of sweetness.
Jiu Qu Hong Mei also named as red plum/ longjing black tea. It is made of material from Longjing varietal in Hangzhou. People considered it to be the best partner with Longjing Green Tea, and called them “One Red & One Green” in the West Lake region. The Tea is harvested in early spring, with light fermentation, it tastes elegant and relatively light when comparing with other black tea, but it is well balanced with floral and fruity notes, and light undertone of red plum.
- Origin: Hang Zhou, Zhejiang, China
- Harvest Time: Spring 2022
- Tasting Notes: floral, fruity, honey, Osmanthus, lingering sweetness
What’s the differences between Scented Tea, Flavored Tea and Tea with floral notes?
Is all of the “Floral Tea” naturally scented or is it a flavored tea with artificial flower essences? There are actually 3 different kinds of concept when talking about the floral aroma in the floral tea:
Scented Tea:
The Tea is scented with natural, real and fresh flower. The Tea inside this box is a kind of scented Tea. It undergone the scenting process – Tea is blended and scented with real flower for several times, the tea leaves absorb the flower flagrance naturally. For example, Tea is usually scented with jasmine, osmanthus, rose and chrysanthemum. Flowers can be left in the dry leaves or being removed from the dry leaves after the scenting process, that’s why sometime you will find the tea looks exactly the same as the ordinary tea, but you can smell and taste the flower aroma apparently. So, don’t be surprised when you cannot find the flower inside the floral tea.
Flavored Tea:
The Tea is flavored with different ingredients by the flavoring process, the ingredient can be natural or artificial, but most of them is being artificial flavored. For example, it can be flavored with flower essential oil, fruit or spices. Earl Grey, Ginseng Oolong are the typical examples of flavored Tea.
Tea with floral notes:
The Tea naturally come with floral notes, without any scenting or flavoring process. Many Tea have some natural floral aroma which is usually very subtle and mild, which is totally different than the floral aroma of the scented/ flavored Tea. For example, White Peony White Tea and Osmanthus Dan Cong Oolong is actually pure Tea, not a kind of floral Tea though they have a flower name in their name.
