This tea is very very good, and very high quality. Hands down the best jasmine pearl I’ve ever had.
My history with jasmine pearls is a bumpy road, I’ve tried many always wanting to like this style of tea. But most jasmine pearls get too strong and bitter, drying/astringent, or they’re too weak and faded, and most don’t have much jasmine taste or aromas after the first or second steeping. And not to sound like Goldie Locks, but Hojo’s jasmine pearls are “just right”.
I cooled the water slightly from a boil by passing it through an Akitsu Mumyoi teapot I got from Hojo, using the teapot as a samashi (cooling pitcher). I poured the slightly cooled water into a tall glass, with just enough jasmine pearls to cover the bottom of the glass.
This tea lasted over 5 steepings before beginning to fade (that’s 5 full glasses of tea).
Super long, pleasant, and strong aftertaste of sweet jasmine with a touch of honey. No bitterness, no sour, this is a wonderful tea to have after breakfast. The flavor just goes on and on and on…this lasts longer than a lot of puerh I’ve been sampling recently. I’m very impressed with this tea.
Believe it or not there’s quite a lot of huigan in this tea too. A pleasant cooling effect in the mouth and throat.
Not my usual indulgence, but wanting to mix it up today, and this is something I see myself returning to more often in the future. This is good!
Flavors: Floral, Flowers, Honey, Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Sweet
