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We exclusively carry Rishi teas at the coffee shop I work at and Jasmine Pearl is at the top of my list!
I began drinking this tea LONG before I started working at the shop and developed a bit of an addiction—even after trying other teas, I always come back to Jasmine.
Such a beautiful, floral scent and flavor; drinking this tea is like tasting a spring meadow. But be warned: over-steeping results in a barely drinkable, extremely bitter cup of tea.
Preparation
This tea is a very full tea. It’s got a great scent, a lot of flavor, and leaves you feeling like you’ve just had a meal. The gunpowder and the pu erh dante give this tea a really great smoky, rich flavor, while the hazelnut brings it down and lends it a homey scent and taste that makes it comforting as well. It’s very much a BAMF tea, but a BAMF that likes its muffins. I think it would lend itself well to whatever you wanted to try with it, be it honey, lemon, cream, sugar, whatever. But personally I think this makes a smashing cup without any frills.
The only downside, and this is pretty much exclusive to me, is that black tea tends to give me a stomach ache, and I can already tell that this is strong enough to cause some problems if I drank more than one cup in a couple hours. But if you’re not affected by such things, then no worries!
