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Our Moonlight Jasmine Green Tea comes from a small organic tea garden in an isolated mountainous region of South China where the villagers still make tea by hand in the traditional way.
It is a fusion of green tea and the heady fragrance of night-flowering jasmine flowers. The delicate white blossom is picked in the morning and kept cool through the day. At night, when the blossom is at its most fragrant, it is layered with the green tea for several hours. The process is sometimes repeated for several nights until the tea absorbs the flavour.
It takes years of skill to judge just when the exquisite scent of the jasmine blossom has reached a perfect balance with the slight astringency and natural sweetness of the tea.
Our Organic Moonlight Jasmine has a light, delicate and faintly aromatic taste with a fragrance that lingers on the palate. Scented only with the finest blossom, it is fresh and floral in tone.
It is a refreshing all-day drink, good as a digestive compliment to food - and not just Chinese. It’s particularly good with oilier foods.
Like all green teas, Dragonfly Moonlight Jasmine Green Tea is rich in antioxidants and polyphenols while Jasmine is also considered by herbalists to be effective against stress and depression.
`A word of caution - jasmine oil and artificial flavouring are sometimes added to lower-grade jasmine teas to heighten the aroma. This practice ruins the delicate taste and character of the tea.
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At Dragonfly Teas we consider that the way crops are grown is intrinsic to the well-being of everyone.
Working with nature to achieve the best quality with little or no chemicals involved is in our view, the way things should be.
The demands of the modern world for more; faster; better has resulted in short term exploitation of the land and the people who work it, with no thought for the future.
So we prefer to do things differently.
We believe that it is important to respect the relationship to the land of those who patiently grow our food (often under great hardship).
We are aware of the difference that the ancient country artisan traditions of food–making can make. Traditions that are thankfully still used today to create high quality teas and other foods, such as fine wines and local cheeses.
There are reputedly up to 8,000 different hand-made teas in China. They are part of a 1,500-year-old tradition. These are disappearing rapidly through mechanical and chemical intervention. The world has plenty of poor quality teas with very few of high quality on offer. This is because of lack of consumer awareness of the rich heritage of taste experiences produced by the smaller artisan tea-makers.
Dragonfly Teas is pledged to bring these teas to the discerning palate and in so doing, help to keep alive the traditions and skills that have created them.
We believe strongly in the ideals of the Slow Food movement, which is growing fast throughout Europe. We think it is important that every country has a dynamic small-scale agricultural food production sector. It ensures that rural people are rewarded for their efforts and helps to stop the depopulation of the countryside.
We also support non-political Fair Trade that campaigns to ensure we pay fairly and as directly as possible to the farmers with as few intermediaries as possible. This means that more of the profits end up directly in the hands of the communities that grow the crops.
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