Jasmine Dragon Phoenix Pearls

Much too floral for my liking. I prefer a stronger, earthy, vegetal green tea. I also thought it was rather weak, I had to put more than twice as much tea as the label suggested.

Edit: I’m starting to get used to the floral taste, and I’m actually enjoying this tea now. This is a nice mid-afternoon tea light tea.

I normally drink black tea but decided to give this one a try. I used 1tsp/6oz water. I steeped for 2 1/2 min to make it a little stronger and it paid off. I smell the green tea scent over the Jasmine. The flavor is a little nutty and earthy.

I really like this one and would definitely get it again.

A great Jasmine tea that’s good for multiple steepings. I drank a lot of this when I worked at Teavana; the bouquet is divine! It is more expensive than similar teas from other sites/stores, but this one is quality every time you get it.

You are an overpriced cup of horrible Jasmine tea. I may be biased having once worked for you, but honestly people, if you like Teavana’s Jasmine, try out some from other companies, and you’ll see how the difference between Jasmine flavor vs Jasmine scented for numerous nights with fresh Jasmine Flowers really tastes.

Backlogging from earlier today.

The smell of this is so potent, it’s amazing, almost make me want to eat the pearls themselves. The smell definitely stays when you steep… but one thing that doesn’t seem to stay, is any sort of flavor. I don’t really know how this is considered green tea with how light it is, by the taste of it and sight of the tea, you’d think it was a white tea. I definitely think the steep time on this is way off. I originally steeped it for 3 1/2 minutes which didn’t seem like enough. I went about it again with new tea, this time for 7 minutes, definitely got more flavor with no bitter aftertaste like you’d normally get with greens from over-steeping. I think I just need to get better at steeping this one and it will turn out fine.

I’ve made this many times before in the past, but it has always been in much larger quantities and steeped for sometimes up a few hours or even overnight. The flavor of those always turned our really nice, but it was being made for a semi-sweet ice tea (made with a half cup of sugar and 1 gallon of tea ratio). Even when I sampled it at Teavana it tasted much different than it did when I brewed it this time.

This is one of my favorite teas ever. I initially got it for a friend, but before giving it to her I definitely made myself a few cups. The flavor is delicious and it’s really easy to steep and get a good flavor without being bitter. I can re-steep without it getting bitter, and (if I’m lucky) a second time. It’s a little bit expensive, but I have yet to buy this tea from a different store.

Nom.

I enjoy jasmine tea, however, once again, I get snagged into buying it after trying the samples. Even though I purchased every type of product pushed to me from this store, I can’t get my tea to taste anything like the samples they had there. Makes me upset.

Jasmine teas are tricky. The floral aroma can easily fool one into thinking “this tea is gonna taste sweet” when in fact the honey smoothness you were looking for is no where in sight (*normally). Now, if I’m being honest, I have a limited experience with jasmine teas (i’m working on it)… this one is very enjoyable. Potentially bitter, so be careful with your steep time. The leafs are very fun to watch unfurl during the steep so don’t just leave it there… enjoy the show.

This is an excellent, smooth tea. I love to drink iced or even blended with other teas. I have found that mixing it with Six Summits Oolong (teavana) gives it a nice earthy tone. Sadly as much as I would like to re-steep this tea, it goes stale after about 2 steeps. I steep this tea about 175-180 for about 1:45 seconds and it produces a nice strong flavor without the bitterness