Steamed green tea and infused with scent from midnight picked jasmine.
Cup Characteristics:
Exquisite abundant jasmine character. The intense jasmine notes are only possible with flowers picked at the peak - generally about midnight. Some pungency with delicious green tea character.
Infusion:
Tending bright emerald green
CERTIFYING BODY:
ECOCERT - L isle Jourdain, France
CERTIFICATE NUMBER:
407CN0010w19
REFERENCE NUMBER:
OT20001022 F028
Organic tea is produced without the input of chemical fertilizers or pesticides and herbicides. Unfortunately the yield per acre is lower and quite often quality can suffer compared to when fertilizers and others inputs are utilized. Nevertheless with good manufacturing techniques the cup characteristics can be maintained at a very high level - such is the case with this tea. This tea is a particularly good jasmine - hence the moniker Gold Dragon, (gold means wealth, prosperity, money and dragon means long life and strength). The jasmine tree comes into bloom only during May and June. The blossom only lasts for about 12 hours and only comes out at night after the sun goes down. About half way through the night the fragrance is at its peak and it is at this time the blossoms need to be picked and layer into the tea. By the morning most of the fragrance has disappeared from the blossom, but if the tea maker has done his job correctly, this heavenly scent has been transferred to the tea and captured in time. This process is carried out on 5 successive evenings to impart the superior flavor of specially selected tea and jasmine flowers.
Will keep buying this tea