Green Tea Jasmine - Sunleaf - 25 tea bags

Jasmine green tea is one of the gentler things you can put in a mug, and Sunleaf keeps this one simple: green tea carrying the scent of jasmine blossom, in a bag.

The flavour

Jasmine arrives first, as perfume rather than sweetness, and the green tea follows underneath it — grassy, faintly dry, clean on the finish. There is nothing to add to it; milk would smother the flower entirely. It suits the middle of the afternoon, or the end of a meal where a black tea would be too much.

How jasmine tea is made

Jasmine tea is traditionally scented rather than flavoured. Green tea leaves are laid together with fresh jasmine blossom until the leaf has taken up the aroma, and the blossom is then removed again. That is why a good jasmine tea smells of the flower without tasting perfumed.

Brewing

Green tea does not want boiling water. Let the kettle stand for a minute or two after it clicks off, then pour and give the bag two to three minutes. Hotter and longer than that draws out a dry, bitter edge that has nothing to do with the jasmine.

• Green tea scented with jasmine blossom
• 25 tea bags, each individually wrapped
• Plastic-free packaging