There are many tea friends who ask me that he usually likes to drink jasmine tea very much, but sometimes the jasmine tea he buys has jasmine flowers, and sometimes he buys no jasmine tea, so is the real jasmine tea with flowers or without flowers? Some tea lovers will say that only those with flowers are called jasmine tea, but the old tea customers in the north may say that the real jasmine tea is only smelling its fragrance and not seeing its shape, and some people will say that only poor jasmine tea will have flowers, and expensive, good quality jasmine tea is without jasmine. In the early stage, green tea and jasmine are smoked together, and in this process, the fragrance of jasmine will be adsorbed into green tea (the adsorption of tea is relatively strong), so after this stage, the tea already has a jasmine fragrance, but with the different times of kilning, the aroma will be different. The cheap ones may be one or two times, the expensive ones will be four or five times, and there are rarely seven or eight times like this, so many merchants say that the seven kilns and eight kilns are a little watery.
After the kiln is finished, the jasmine will actually turn from white to orange-yellow, at this time they will generally select the jasmine separately, leaving a clean and refreshing green tea, this is the old tea customer called jasmine tea, the tea is only fragrant, no jasmine. The tea leaves are already ready and sold in this flowerless state.
So why do some jasmine teas have flowers, and there are quite a few? In fact, these flowers are added later, jasmine's ** is actually cheaper than tea's**, then adding jasmine into it, on the one hand, it can increase the amount of tea, on the other hand, it can also make the tea look better, and there will be jasmine floating in the cup when it is brewed.
And different places drink jasmine tea is also different, such as Sichuan, Yunnan and other places prefer to add jasmine into it, called drifting snow jasmine. For example, friends in the north don't like jasmine tea with flowers, so it's easier to drink it from a teacup.
Therefore, tea friends, jasmine tea is flowery, it is also flower-not, don't one-sidedly think that there is no jasmine tea is not jasmine tea, but to pursue the so-called jasmine more tea, this is not right! Because the key to drinking jasmine tea is to look at the quality of the tea, we can't pursue more or less flowers, strong and light fragrance, otherwise we will spend money in vain!