This tea is added to my cupboard courtesy of DOULTON! Hooray for another great tea!
Today’s tea party included freshly baked bread with butter, honey, jam, or apple butter, a cheese platter, and cookies. This was the first tea we tried today.
The dry tea is lovely with the delicate flower petals mixed in. The aroma of the dry leaves is floral/citrus.
The steeped tea really smells like wonderful jasmine. My first jasmine tea was from Southern Season and was not very good. I really can’t drink it! But this is delicious! I am sure this is exactly how jasmine is meant to be! Jasmine is the primary flavoring note I get, followed quickly by a deeper rosy note, warm and sweet. The tea is a tiny bit astringent and gets more so as it cools, so I would drink this quickly or add milk if I would be taking a while to drink it. I didn’t realize there was green tea in this until after it was made. Knowing that, I would change my parameters next time. We used boiling water and the longest recommended steep. I think I wll back off the water temp and steep time a little and see if that takes a bit of the dryness out. We used no sugar. The jasmine was delightfully sweet as it was.
Everyone loved this, and I know I am delighted with it! Thank you, Doulton!
