Jasmine, Scented & Smoked
Tea Trekker is happy to offer several classic scented teas for your enjoyment.
Flower-scented tea (hua cha) is a Chinese specialty first made during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). These fragrant teas later reached a pinnacle of excellence in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644.) The most famous of these teas are sweet-scented jasmine, rose, lychee and osmanthus-scented teas.
The early Chinese tea masters first experimented with and then excelled at producing scented teas from a variety of aromatic fresh flower blossoms. But the culmination of the fine art of tea scenting came with the creation of traditionally crafted Jasmine tea: a complicated process involving careful leaf tea preparation during the height of the spring tea season, and the later addition of the most aromatic of autumn’s freshly-harvested jasmine flowers to that carefully held leaf.
Here at Tea Trekker we are justifiably proud of our heady, scented Earl Grey tea, which we blend in-house and scent with all-natural Italian Bergamot oil. Our loyal Earl Grey tea customers tell us it is the best Earl Grey they have ever tasted, and from the prodigious quantity that we sell, we believe them!
Lapsang Souchong is classified as a scented black tea due to the fact that it is smoked over pine wood charcoal embers during a certain stage of its leaf manufacture. It is made in the Wu Yi Shan, a mountainous region of rocky cliffs and bamboo and pine forests located in northern Fujian Province, China. The original and authentic Lapsang Souchong is called Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, and is made from fresh leaf plucked from tea gardens on Tong Mu, a mountain located within the protected nature preserve that surrounds the smoking sheds.
We describe the production steps required for making traditional fresh-flower scented Jasmine tea, and relate our visit to a Jasmine tea manufacturer in our book: The Story of Tea or you can view Mary Lou’s article on Jasmine Tea manufacture here.
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Earl Grey Tea
Scented Black Tea
Earl Grey Tea
Expertly Blended & Scented by Tea Trekker -
2020
Jasmine Dragon Pearls
Scented Tea / Organic
Traditional scenting with fresh flower blossoms
2020 April/Sept Manufacture -
2020
Jasmine Silver Needles
Scented White Tea
Traditional scenting with fresh flower blossoms
2020 March/July Manufacture -
Jasmine Snowflakes
Scented Tea
Jasmine Snowflakes (Bi Tan Piao Xue)
Traditional scenting with fresh flower blossoms
2020 April/Sept Manufacture -
Jasmine Spring Hao Ya
Scented Tea
Jasmine Spring Hao Ya
2020 May / October Manufacture -
Lapsang Souchong Mainland China
Smoked Black Tea (Highly Smoked)
Lapsang Souchong
Spring/Summer Pluck & Smoking -
Lapsang Souchong Taiwan
Smoked Black Tea (Highly Smoked)
Lapsang Souchong
Spring/Summer Pluck & Smoking -
Rose Congou
Scented Black Tea
Rose Congou Tea
Traditional scenting with fresh rose petals -
Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong #1
Smoked Black Tea/Organic
Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong #1 Lightly Smoked Tea
The Original & Authentic Smoked Chinese Tea
Spring/Summer Pluck & Smoking