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Bright jasmine aroma accentuates clean and refreshing flavour
profile of the noble green tea from the Chinese province of Yunnan. Spring mood comes with every sip
of Jasmine Dream. Tea has never been treated in China as just a drink, it was
always regarded as a touchstone for human virtue that can open up path to self-improvement and
finest expressions of human soul. This sacred attitude lies at the heart of the ancient
tradition to decorate tea – in an effort to underline the sophistication and importance of the
ceremony tea was decorated with flowers of jasmine, lotus or plum. Chinese tea ceremony masters
believed that flower petals enhanced tea image and brought with them pleasure not only to the palate
but to the eye as well. This ancient tradition is reflected in the famous traditional recipe of
Chinese Jasmine tea. Today the original jasmine tea is produced only in the North-West of Yunnan
province in the remote district separated from the rest of the country by numerous mountain chains
covered with forests and cut with terraces. Only there, on the slopes of the Southern spurs of
Himalayas, Jasmine blossoming coincides with the first plucking of the famous Yunnan tea. Right
after plucking tea leaves are cut into strips and slightly withered in the natural tree shadow. Then
tea leaves are placed in bamboo baskets and dried above the open fire. Still hot tea leaves are
mixed up with the equal quantity of just harvested jasmine petals and kept together for some time
for tea to absorb all the beautiful aroma of Jasmine. The higher the grade of tea the better are the
Jasmine flowers used and the more balanced is the combination of the perfect tea flavour and airy
Jasmine aroma – as in Greenfield Jasmine Dream bringing to you spring recollections...
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