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Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearls from Nourish Tea

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75/100

Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearls

Green Tea by Nourish Tea

Since the launch of nourishtea in 2008, this has been our best seller – and it makes perfect sense: it’s quite simply a beautiful and mysterious tea, both to the eye and to the pallet. This exquisite tea comes from the Fujian province in China.

Picture this: thousands and thousands of tea pearls are blended with jasmine flower blossoms. Once infused with water, the pearls then majestically unfurl, releasing an exotic jasmine scent that is simply unforgettable. A little girly? Maybe. For everyone? Absolutely. Unfortunately, you can’t find it everywhere (yet), but ask us where you can find it and we’ll help you find a way.

3 Tasting Notes

Kamyria
Kamyria 2 tasting notes

This was my first Jasmine tea and I have to say I really like it. I was a bit nervous when buying it because I heard that the scent is too powerful for some but I decided to take the plunge. After all how can you say no to these beautiful hand rolled pearls and the name that has the word ‘dragon’ in it. This tea simply had to be tried.

The tea is very fragrant but not too overwhelming for me. It has a very pleasant, delicate taste but have to be careful to not over steep or it will turn bitter. My first couple of brews were a bit on a bitter side. After refining my steeping procedure, I now get it perfect every time.

For some reason I love to have this tea in the afternoons… I don’t know why but it just seems perfect that way.

I decided to have the Dragon Pearls with my tea biscuits this evening. Thanks to my recent purchase of digital thermometer I was able to fine tune the brewing of this fragrant tea. I noticed in the past that this tea has a tendency of turning bitter fast, therefore proper temperature and timing became crucial here.

I steeped it at 80C for 4 minutes with excellent results. The brew is pale in color, mild on the tongue with prominent floral notes which are not too overwhelming for my taste.

Still one of my favorites but I’ll be curious to try another company when it’s time to re-order just to see how this one holds up in comparison.

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Rebecca Rose
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This tea is ideal for afternoon tea or after eating sushi. It has a perfume like flavour and a big part of enjoying this tea experience is watching the tiny pearls unwrap themselves as they fill with water.