Jasmine Silver Needle from Samovar

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82/100

Jasmine Silver Needle

White Tea by Samovar

Origin: Fujian, China

Flavor Profile: Light and mildly savory notes of hay with a heady, fragrant sweetness of jasmine blossom.

Tea Story: The first time Chistine drank this tea, she was swept away buy the desire to take a bath it! So delightful are the aromas that arise from your tea cup. Floral, slightly sweet, delicate, lightly caffeinated, and sooo soothing. White teas are known to be high in antioxidants, while jasmine is known for its relaxing qualities. Think of this tea as medicine: a delicious, aromatic remedy to all the day’s stresses. If only all medicine could be so lovely!

Samovarian Poetry: Delicate jasmine flowers melt seamlessly into the savoriness of this bai hao.

Food Pairing: Pair this fragrant jasmine bouquet infusion with a sweet flour crepe with orange marmalade and almonds. Or cookies with sandy textures that aren’t too sweet. At the tea lounge we like to drink the Jasmine Silver Needle while snacking on our cherry oat scone. Like with other white teas, you’ll want to remember not to overwhelm the palate with flavors that will overshadow the delicate taste of the golden infusion.

3 Tasting Notes

takgoti
90

Really, you could just read the description to this tea, because that is what it tastes like. It is light, it has the sweet and savory taste of hay, and the perfumed taste of jasmine is woven throughout.

The silver needle and the jasmine are both easy to find; one doesn’t drown out the other, which is surprising. In most jasmine teas that I’ve had, the jasmine has been very pronounced. Pronounced enough that, while it might not be belting a power ballad in your ear, it’s loud enough that you can’t ignore the fact that it’s there. While I appreciate that, it also means that if there’s anything else going on in the tea it can get drowned out a lot of the time. That isn’t a problem with this one, and I am completely enamored with now this ended up balancing out.

Some teas intertwine like vines on a trellis. Some swirl together like a chocolate and vanilla soft serve twisty cone. Others blend like fruit juices. This is like being outdoors during a summer afternoon, drunk on sunshine, with the scent of just baled hay and jasmine blossoms wafting to you on a light breeze.

I’ll be buying more when I’m done with this tin.

180 °F / 82 °C
4 min 0 sec
1 comment
Auggy
93

How have I not had this one before? I would have paid more attention to it if I had know I hadn’t logged it before. Oops!

Smells of dark, exotic jasmine. Not overpoweringly but just strong enough. Really pretty. Mouthwatering. Mmm. The flavor is a lot like the smell. Very dark and exotic. Like a dark purple flower. If you ate it. Okay, maybe not, but if a dark purple rainforest-y flower had a non-flower taste, it’d taste like this. With a light sweetness of jasmine laid on top of it. I’m guessing that dark, lovely flavor is from the Silver Needle which is pretty nifty since I’ve yet to find a plain Silver Needle that doesn’t make me think of soybean water. So this makes me hopeful that I can find a SN that is yummy, not like boiled veggie water. Because this is lovely. My cup went away very quickly.
5.9g/12oz

175 °F / 79 °C
3 min 0 sec
1 comment
Ricky
85

The first time I had Adagio’s Jasmine Silver Needle, I fell in love with it. If I gave out 100s then that tea would definitely have gotten a perfect hundred. I don’t give out a hundreds because I don’t believe that a tea can be perfect. I mean it wouldn’t make sense because then this tea would have to be rated 110 or 120 to be fair.

So this tea is quite pricey, at least to me. $11 for .7 ounce or $21 for 2oz. Two infusions per serving. Is it worth it? Definitely. Well, that is, if you love the combination of jasmine and silver needles. Adagio’s Jasmine Silver needle was purely a jasmine tea. The silver needle aspect of it didn’t exist. Nonetheless that tea was still exquisite. Samovars? Amazing! Light jasmine fragrant followed by a jasmine tea taste and then it’s the silver needles. The silver needle taste showed up a bit more in my second cup but that may have been due to the longer steep. I’m going to see if I could make a third steep as I don’t want to get the most out of this delicious tea. If you enjoyed Adagio’s then you’d probably want to try some of this =)

185 °F / 85 °C
3 min 30 sec
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