Company Name: JK Tea Shop
You will have to take a moment and check out JK Tea Shop website, besides a lovely collection of teas they have some really beautiful accessories for tea as well. Check it out, tell them My Tea Vault sent you and let me know what you purchased. Just because I love to know. :-).
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TEA SELECTION: ORGANIC JASMINE SILVER NEEDLE
Interesting Highlights:
The liquor of this tea is very light, almost clear however the flavor is strong, not overpowering but intense.
Ingredients:
Silver Needle White Tea
Review:
When you first open the pouch the jasmine tea really seeps out into the air, it’s a beautiful floral bouquet. The tea itself is not bitter and no aftertaste. The tea is smooth and the jasmine scent is really lovely. The tea is a white tea that has been infused several times with Jasmine flowers giving it the stringers flavor or jasmine I’ve yet seen in this type of tea.
Cost: $11.70 / 50 gram foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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TEA SELECTION: ANJI CHA WHITE TEA GREEN TEA
Interesting Highlights:
Beautiful tea to look at and to taste.
Ingredients:
An Ji – White tea
Green Tea
Review:
This tea has that familiar “green” flavor that resembles a pea flavor with a nutty yet vegetal flavor. This tea has a slight perfume flavor and aftertaste. The tea is smooth with no bitterness, lovely in this reviewers cup!
Cost: $17.50 / 50 gram foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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TEA SELECTION: MT. WUDONG MI LAN XIANG
Interesting Highlights:
I dubbed this tea “different” with a mint mulchy earthy scent and yes mulchy is now a word.
Ingredients:
Dancing tea roasted the tradition charcoal way
Review:
Despite the scent of this tea being stronger and vegetal the liquor is a light beautiful amber. The taste gives us a tangy minty sweet flavor, not an overpowering sweetness but just the sense of honey all around your mouth. It’s different in the aspect of the tangy – sweet – mint flavor you get in every sip, enjoyable for sure.
Cost: $10.60 / 50 gram foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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TEA SELECTION: ORGANIC WHITE PEONY
Interesting Highlights:
This is not an herbal tea but actually a white tea given it’s name by the way the leaves form a shape of the peony flower after brewing.
Ingredients:
White tea
Review:
This tea reminded me of a Victorian Romantic tea to share on a date. Can’t believe a tea can make you think like that? Try this tea. Very dainty light scented and floral. Smooth from first sip to last.
Cost: $9.40 / 50 grams foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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TEA SELECTION: ANXI GADE TIE GUAN YIN
Interesting Highlights:
Mellow and floral scent not overpowering but strong enough to get your attention and make you smile when you open the bag
Ingredients:
Oolong Tea
Review:
Delightful floral scent and a somewhat jasmine flavor. Mild with a delightful aftertaste that makes you want to revisit the tea over and over again. The liquor is light and once cooled (I tried it iced as well gives a delightful sweet floral taste).
Cost: $8.30 / 50 gram foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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TEA SELECTION: JIN MAEO HOU
Interesting Highlights:
I’m actually sipping on this as an iced tea right now, it’s very interesting and not really something I’d suggest iced however, it’s interesting enough for me to enjoy while working.
Ingredients:
Review:
This tea reminded me of a Pekoe in it’s scent but it is anything but. Once brewed this tea takes on a nutty strong woody flavor. It’s got a slight bitterness which fits well with the nutty flavor. Lovely amber brew and it’s a lovely tea to have at dinner time or after dinner to just sit and sip and talk about the day.
Cost: $8.50 / 50 gram foil bag
Price may vary according to the amount purchased.
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SPECIAL NOTE:
I’m serious about checking out this store and it’s Tea wares and accessories, they have a lovely selection of gaiwan and cups as well. There is even a pu er cake stand which is unique to me.
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Company highlights, notes and more:
jk tea shop, a China-based tea shop, aims to provide fine Chinese loose leaves tea to internationally tea lovers, and promote Chinese tea culture.
Enjoy good tea, enjoy good lifestyle.
Read more and visit the website: CLICK HERE.
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AVERAGE BREWING INSTRUCTIONS:
These are common instructions for brewing teas, however if the company suggests other brewing I will include it in the review section.
Time and Temperature Guide:
Tea Temperature Minutes
Black 95°C / 205°F 3 – 5
Oolong/White 85°C / 185°F 3 – 4
Green/Yellow 80°C / 176°F 2 – 3
Herbal/Tisanes. 100°C / 212°F 5 – 15
** As always stated by My Tea Vault, we think you should enjoy tea the way you like it, I like mine very strong with no sweetener, these are just guidelines and I suggest you use the guideline then adjust for your own tastes.
