Jasmine Silver Needle White Tea (Mo Li Yin Zhen) from Teavivre

Jasmine Silver Needle White Tea (Mo Li Yin Zhen)

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
Jasmine Flowers, White Tea
Flavors
Floral, Jasmine, Sweet, Vegetal, Mint, Spearmint, Smooth, Cream, Vanilla, Hay, Herbaceous, Honey, Flowers, Creamy
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Organic
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Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec 5 g 10 oz / 303 ml

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  • “The lady I had not seen in about five years who came for tea last month wanted to come again. She was picking up feed bags for a Pinterest project. Of course, I wanted to serve tea again because...” Read full tasting note
  • “I know nothing about the jasmine flower. It sure seems like there must be two distinct types used in tea, or two different application methods. All I know is all tea bag versions, and most loose...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is like an instant-calm potion. I take a sip and I can just feel myself relax. It is tea like this that makes me wish I either had a fantastic thermos bottle to bring hot water down with me or...” Read full tasting note
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  • “This is a big sample, and it’s getting up there in age, especially for a white tea. I really need to drink it down! I put a big pile of this in my gongfu teapot and steeped it for somewhere between...” Read full tasting note
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From Teavivre

Origin: Fuding, Fujian, China

Ingredients: Mixing the freshness and fragrance of jasmine with the mellowness

and sweetness of silver needle pekoe

Taste: Pale Bright and clear tea liquor

Brew: 2-3 teaspoons for 8oz of water. Brew at 176 ºF (80 ºC) for 1 to 2 minutes (exact time depends on your taste – a longer time will give the tea a stronger taste and color)

Health Benefits: Silver Needle White Tea gives you the greatest health benefits of all White Teas. Composed of only unopened, fresh leaf buds, none of the beneficial antioxidants and minerals in this tea have yet had a chance to used by the plant to convert to chlorophyll or other parts of an opened leaf’s structure. As a result, TeaVivre’s Silver Needle tea offers the highest quantity of beneficial ingredients.

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This tea is still my favorite jasmine tea. I know that Jasmine Dragon Pearls are more popular, but this one wins by a small margin for me.

It’s so sweet, with just the right amount of jasmine. It has none of the soapy perfume taste often found in this type of floral tea.

The green tea never turns bitter and is good for multiple steeps.

After looking at some of Boychik’s pics on Instagram, I’ve decided to start using my fancy antique bone china more often. What is it good for if you don’t use it right?

Well, it actually made my tea taste even better :-)

Pics of this afternoon’s session:

http://instagram.com/p/yVEllcQh48/

http://instagram.com/p/yVFP0rwh55/

http://instagram.com/p/yVD61dwh4B/
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Kaylee
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Such a pretty cup!

TheTeaFairy
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Thanks Kaylee :-)

DeliriumsFrogs
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Oh, those pics!! SO MUCH GORGEOUS!! :D

TheTeaFairy
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Aww, thank you so much DeliriumFrogs, tea is my inspiration :-)

Maddy Barone
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Yes, I love using my grandmother’s tea set that she received as a wedding present in 1919. I save it for special occasions though,and use a vintage tea cup I bought on Ebay for more casual times.

Anlina
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I really need to start using all of my tea ware. What’s the point of having it, if it just sits in a box or the back of the cupboard and I never enjoy it.

KiwiDelight
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It looks so beautiful in that cup. How did you brew it?

TheTeaFairy
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Maddy, that must be such a special set!! :-)

Anlina, same here, that’s excactly why I started using mine!

KiwiDelight Thank you! I just brewed it in a simple Gaiwan :-)

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Today has been an awful day.

I woke up in the night and could not get back to sleep. I just didn’t feel right and that kept me up all night long. I did finally fall back asleep about 4-5 hours later, but this has left me feeling really out of it. I have a headache, too, that I don’t think is related to my lack of sleep, and these storms that are rolling through aren’t helping.

So I needed a tea that would be delicious and comforting, something that would envelop me in it.

This is the tea.

I love this jasmine tea. I used to drink a bunch of jasmine teas, but I haven’t too much recently. Most of them seem over done to me. This one does not. It is a perfect balance of jasmine and white tea. I love the mouth feel from the silver needle, almost effervescent. I love the jasmine, sweet and floral, delicately done.

I am finding this tea to be really comforting today. It’s not helping the headache, but it is helping me feel better in other ways.
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Marzipan
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I get headaches when storms come in, maybe that’s part of it for you?

boychik
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Hope you feel better;)

Cheri
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I get headaches when the pressure really changes, but it’s a little low, but not really. It might just be from my allergies and hanging out outside yesterday, or for being a little bit dehydrated, or who knows what. I dunno.

Cheri
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The pressure now has really dropped and yep, this is a sinus pressure headache now. Full Force. I’m supposed to go to a concert tonight but all I want to do is curl up and hope it goes away.

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