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From the retailer’s web site:
“Now more osmanthus flavor! A delicate China green tea scented with osmanthus, a flower native to China and prized for its peach/apricot aroma. Osmanthus flowers are said to improve digestion and make the tea drinker live a longer and more healthy life. Good hot or for iced tea. (See our “How to Make Iced Tea” section.) Use 1 tsp. per cup and steep 1.5 - 2 minutes in steaming water.”
Sweet osmanthus is a genus of flowering plants native to temperate Asia. The flowers can be white, yellow or orange-yellow and are quite fragrant, with an aroma somewhat like peach or apricot. In Chinese, osmanthus-flavored tea is refered to as guì huā chá (桂花茶). The flowers are also used to create jams, sweet cakes, dumplings, soups and even liquor.
You can detect a very faint aroma of osmanthus - almost like a honeysuckle - from this brew, but it is the China green tea base that first makes itself known with a woodsy, vegetable scent. This is certainly one of the more delicate Chinese green teas. That is to say, its not what I’d commonly call a “tree-bark” tea. There is that slightly bitter undertone to it, but its nicely subdued and allows for the full vegetable taste of the tea to shine through. I don’t know that the osmanthus actually makes it to the tongue - its more of an olfactory experience I think, and you get faint wisps of it in the back of your nose as you exhale, post-sip.
I’m not really big on flowery-teas, but I did enjoy this one. I imagine those who particularly love jasmine teas would find this to be an interesting change of pace - quite a bit more subdued than jasmine, but with similar undertones.
— To purchase Tea Table Osmanthus Green, or for more specific information on ingredients or the story behind this particular blend, click here to go directly to the manufacturer's web site.
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