Jul 20
Jamie’s Teaview Snapshot
 | "The scenting of the tea was just right weight wise in order to be able to taste the tea along with the flower, but the base tea seemed to be lacking in taste qualities to make it a really interesting backdrop for the jasmine."
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Tea Gschwendner's China Wuyuan Jasmine has a very attractive dried leaf. The base for this tea is a Chun Mee Chinese green tea grown in Jiangxi Province. The leaves are gorgeous, tiny with a very slight curl to them. Their coloring is striking, too, a mixture of nearly blue black leaves with greens and a few tawny leaves here and there as well. The jasmine scenting is light and mellow.Brewed at just over 190 degrees, according to the website's instructions, and steeped for two minutes, the tea yields a dark cider coloring, and the jasmine scent is clean and sweet. To the taste, this tea has a really mild nature, and I found the body to be quite delicate. This surprised me because the coloring of the tea sort of biased me to think it would be stronger, and the TeaGschwendner website suggests that this is a bold tea on a couple of occasions as well.
I found the tea quite clear and clean of taste, to the point of being too mild overall. There was a pleasant astringency early on in the cup which became slightly more sour as the cup progressed. I wouldn't describe this as a bold tea at all. The slight astringency was the outstanding characteristic of the green tea base, which to my tastes is engaging, but its not in particular enough to bias me toward a green tea. I found the tea lacking in body and complexity, overall. The scenting of the tea was just right weight wise in order to be able to taste the tea along with the flower, but the base tea seemed to be lacking in taste qualities to make it a really interesting backdrop for the jasmine. If I were looking for a bold green tea I would definitely look elsewhere. While the tea is not unpleasant, neither the green tea nor the jasmine really shone in this offering.
— To purchase TeaGschwendner China Wuyuan Jasmine, 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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