Superfine Jasmine Downy Dragon Pearls Green Tea

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Jasmine Special Grade Green Tea
Flavors
Cantaloupe, Floral, Fruity, Green, Jasmine, Melon
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Caffeine
Medium
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Edit tea info Last updated by TeaVivre
Average preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec 4 g 8 oz / 242 ml

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Origin: Fuding(福鼎), Fujian, China

Ingredients: Pure bud and new leaf, with obvious silver tips, hand rolled into a pearl shape

Taste: A bold sweet tea, with a subtle jasmine aroma

Health Benefits: This Jasmine Dragon Pearl is a superfine green tea, and so gives you all the great health benefits of any green tea. Due to its extremely high content of antioxidants, green tea helps reduce the instance of some forms of cancer, helps lower the risk of heart attacks and coronary diseases and helps fights the affects of aging and pollution.

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50 Tasting Notes

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166 tasting notes

I ordered this sample along with several other teas from Teavivre. My husband and I decided to try it tonight and were glad we did. It was deliciously sweet,fragrant, and smooth just as advertised. We got three flavorful steeps. Loved this tea and recommend it to anyone who appreciates a good jasmine tea.

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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871 tasting notes

Free sample from Teavivre

This dry tea smells so beautiful. It has a pleasant jasmine scent. The downy jasmine balls are perfectly rolled, all uniform, beautiful colouring. As they are brewed they unfurl perfectly. There is a slight downy look to each ball which makes me think of recently hatched chicks. So cute…can tea be cute?

The smell of the brewed tea is very strong jasmine. I was a bit worried because the scent was so strong. The colour of the liquor is a dark golden colour with a tinge of pink.

The taste of the tea is wonderful. There is a jasmine taste but certainly not as strong as the smell.

This is a great tea for the appearance, the smell, and the taste.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 1 min, 0 sec

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47 tasting notes

Starting off with around 5g, 180F, at 100ml.

Lovely scent even without washing or steeping or anything. Floral and jasmine, but not overpowering like some other jasmine tea I’ve tasted.

Steeping times are as follows: 3s, 3s, 4s, 6s, 9s, 12s, 15s, 25s, 30s, 45s, 1m

I do have to say that this matches the tasting profile on steepster 100%. It’s mainly jasmine and green tea taste, but very smoothly mixed and not overpowering whatsoever. The fruity taste is more melon-like in nature, giving me hints of cantaloupe in the mix.

Another nice thing about this tea is that despite its mellow nature, it is consistent throughout. I am on my 7th steep and the flavour tastes identical to the first steep.

I haven’t tried any of the other jasmine teas from teavivre just yet, but I can give a comparison to the Yunnan White Jasmine by Verdant Tea that I have tasted many times. The White Jasmine has a far stronger jasmine flavour and just overall is stronger. This tea is much more mellow in nature. Additionally, the jasmine pearls mix together the jasmine and melon taste, whereas the white jasmine has a very strong jasmine taste that gives way to melon as it approaches the end of it’s steeping life.

Subtly sweet with a lovely mellow melon jasmine, can’t go wrong when choosing this tea

Update: On my 9th steep of this tea (the flavour just doesn’t stop!). Now there’s finally an actual change in flavour. There is a distinctly sweet melon taste rising up. Now most tea give a sensation of sweetness from my experience, but this literally tastes like sugar. If I was to close my eyes and take a bite of melon, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference (Yes, melon doesn’t have jasmine but still).

Flavors: Cantaloupe, Floral, Fruity, Green, Jasmine, Melon

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 0 min, 15 sec 5 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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1403 tasting notes

I love watching these pearls unfurl in my clear glass steeper: like teeny delicate question marks tinting the water as they steep. Beautiful tea, delicate and fragrant. The jasmine scent is just the right balance for the tea itself. My afternoon had been moving along rather nicely and yet this fragrant tea has made it even better.

Thank you, Angel, for the sample.

Drinking this lovely tea throughout the afternoon brought me back in spirit to this lovely lovely town that I stayed in for a time in China and the teahouses that I spent hours contemplating life in. The teahouses I am talking about and the town that I am referring to are pictured here. (To be clear, this is not my blog.) One of my very favourite places in China. http://www.bootsintheoven.com/boots_in_the_oven/2012/03/zigong-sichuan.html

Flavors: Green, Jasmine

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 2 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Inkling

Your description of how these steep is so poetic! I can see it. :)

Evol Ving Ness

Thank you, Inkling. :)

TeaVivre

I do love the Zi Gong Leng Chi Tu Rabbit Meat, so delicious!

Indigobloom

I second that. Always enjoy reading your posts, regardless of the tea (I’m not a Jasmine fan). And rabbit meat… I’ve never had that before!

Evol Ving Ness

Thank you, Indigobloom. Very kind.

TeaVivre, I loved ZiGong, the street bbqs, the hotpots, the tea rooms, street noodles on the shopping street, and yes, the rabbit too. I liked everything about it really. Actually, I loved Chengdu as well although they are very different, Chengdu being a big city. But there is something very special about Sichuan and its people and its food and culture. It left a deep impression.

TeaVivre

Yes, Sichuan is a very special province with lots of extremely delicious and great food, people in here are very nice and if you love spicy foods, then you’ll get used to Sichuan food!

Evol Ving Ness

I love spicy food. When I ordered Szechuan hot pot while I was there in a small restaurant in Zigong, ALL the restaurant AND kitchen staff came and stood around my table and watched me eat.

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4 tasting notes

I ordered this tea from reviews I’d read here. It is beautiful. Light, fresh, subtle flavors. Does not overpower. A truly delicate, delightful tea but strong enough for the morning wake up? No doubt the quality is high

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 5 min, 0 sec 3 tsp
TeaVivre

So happy to hear you’ve enjoyed this tea so far!

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61 tasting notes

This is what was promised and I’m so happy about it – as others have mentioned, it stands out among other jasmines.

I brewed a very small teaspoon of these extra-small pearls at 180 degrees for 2 minutes. The jasmine scent is more verdant and tropical than I was expecting. It smells exceptionally sweet and leaves behind a very lasting perfume. Silky, buttery, and fruity also. This would be excellent blended with something else sweet in a summer drink, but would be too precious to drink that way! My only negative comment is that this would not be a daily drinker due to the sheer power of the jasmine flavor, but I would gladly sip it as a treat or digestive occasionally.

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 15 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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7 tasting notes

Jasmine is one of those scents that just goes so well with tea. I love to watch these little pellets unfurl as they steep in hot water. Love the cup overall. Just wish the Jasmine is stronger so I don’t have to use as much tea. The green tea gets bitter easily, especially if you use more tea.

Flavors: Floral, Fruity, Jasmine

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 1 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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513 tasting notes

Whoa guys! I’m back!

This time, I think I intend to stay (although when isn’t that my intention?). I just realized that I love reading tasting notes, and not only because I love tea. Actually, the main reason I love reading tasting notes is because I love reading descriptions of people enjoying tea. It just makes me feel cozy just thinking about it, and it’s so great to connect with so many wonderful people over a cup of hot tea—realizing that we all have such varied, interesting, and sometimes turbulent lives, but that a cup of tea can give us all a bit of pause and comfort in an otherwise crazy world.

Enough of that though. This tea. It’s delicious and fragrant and all things great…except I still cannot drink most tea straight. I just can’t. Most straight tea leaves a dry feeling in my mouth, and I just don’t know how to combat that other than with additions. I’m kind of annoyed at myself for that, but it keeps on being true for me.
guuuuys! I’m baaaaack!

Roswell Strange

Nice to see you back! I’m hoping as the weather cools a lot of people will return to Steepster :)

keychange

I really hope so too! Being back is kind of weird. I’m like, “who else do I follow? who’s a frequent poster these days? who are all these new people?” LOL.

Sil

yay!! welcome back!

CHAroma

Hey!!! Welcome back! I’m so excited to read your tasting notes again! I just love the way you describe things. This note is no exception. Your vivid description captured one of the things I love so much about tea. I’m totally on the same page as you. :)

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I thought Dragon Pearls would be bigger coz of the name but it is the same size as my other Jasmine Pearl…steeped side by side with equal amounts.

i read that it is better to steep green tea by soaking them in a bit of regular temp water then adding the warm water later so i tried that here and behold, it was perfect. haha

my other pearl has a stronger flavor but in the 3rd steeping, the delicateness of Teavivre’s Dragon shone through like a beam of light and suddenly, the other pearls I’ve tried seemed too strong.

sipping this tea is like sipping the flower itself! and God knows that throughout my life, i have held many a jasmine flower to my nose until it was all squished up so i should know!

I wonder what it will be like to brew this with hotter water? I was pretty conservative with the temp for these greens.

Nicole

I just read recently an opinion that high quality Chinese teas can and should be steeped with higher temperature water to bring out the true flavors. The author thought that since we have tended to have lower quality teas available in the west, the lower temps are needed to overcome the inadequacies, but truly high quality tea needs higher temps. An interesting thought. I have always stuck with the lower temps for greens and whites but I admit that I don’t buy a lot of greens and they are probably not the best quality when I do. The known high quality whites I get from Shang don’t suffer at all from higher temps though so that makes me curious to try a high quality green that way.

yssah

I was also thinking that quality leaves can be steeped at higher temp :) However both got bitter. Teavivre’s got just a bit more bitter so i just mixed the two of them to balance out and put them on cold steep (end of experiment) Sorry I am not too scientific about it – my thermometer broke and I have no way to measure temp.

Nicole

Yeah, I would put Teavivre in the high quality category. Likely, the real truth is variable depending on growing season, processing, etc. And I rarely measure temp accurately. I heat to boiling and then let cool till I think it’s good. :) Not very scientific and not easily repeatable but I tend to drink forgiving teas. :)

ashmanra

These are the smallest pearls I have seen from Teavivre. Premium Jasmine Dragon Pearl is a little larger, and their Black Dragon Pearls are much larger!

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4166 tasting notes

Additional notes: Sipdown of this luxurious tea! I love this one. The jasmine is still so fragrant even though my harvest is from 2014.

TeaVivre

Wow, it’s three years now!

tea-sipper

Yes, and still delicious. :D

MrQuackers

That’s the benefit of dragon pearls.

TeaVivre

I don’t have any stocks for 2014 version dragon pearls, kinda miss it!

tea-sipper

I will miss these pearls do but I still have Teavivre’s lovely jasmine silver needle. :D

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