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This sparkling fresh tea has a scent and taste of Jasmine blossom. A sweet, soft tea with a fresh and sparkling aftertaste.

The Jasmine Pearl is a green tea from China. This tea is grown at the Qingshan plantation in Hunan, where they are handmade and produced according to traditional methods. Hunan is located in the south of China.

A green tea is an unfermented tea. From the end of March until the beginning of April the buds and first two leaves are picked. The blossom of the Jasmine are picked in the evening, because the scent is the strongest. A kilo of Jasmine tea requires ten kilos of blossom.

To add the taste of Jasmine to the tea, the blossom is placed on top of the spreaded tea for 24 hours. It is has to be refreshed constantly. The old blossom is removed before the scent disappears. In this way, the tea leaves absorb the scent of the Jasmine blossom, which obtain the Jasmin flavor. A natural process to make Jasmin tea.

A tea with a scent of flowers and sweet tropical fruit. The tea tastes like coconut, red grapefruit and honey. It has a long and pure aftertaste.

The Dong Ding is an oolong tea from Taiwan and is also called a blue-green tea. This tea is produced in teagardens in the Dong Ding Mountains of the region Nan Tou. Here it is grown according to traditional methods and especially selected by Madame Tseng for De Eenhoorn.

An oolong is a half fermented tea. This plant has large rolled blue-green leaves. After picking, these leaves are spread out in the sun to dry and wither. The leaves are regularly shaken and rolled by hand, to break the edges. At these places Oxidation or fermentation will start. As soon as the edges of the leaves turn red, they are cooked in a pan for 15 minutes. This ensures that the fermentation process stops and a beautiful oolong is created.

A subtle black tea with an aroma of bergamot, a citrus from southern Italy. A refreshing tea with a light citrus taste. You can drink this tea perfectly in the afternoon or after the meal. You can drink this tea with milk and / or sugar or in summer as iced tea.

The Earl Gray is a black tea from China. It can no longer be ignored from the tea world. It is the best-known flavored tea in the world. However Earl Grey tea is mostly made from Indian tea or tea from Sri Lanka, this tea comes from China.

A Black tea is a fully fermented tea. The plant has small black leaves. The tips of the leaf buds are picked together with two leaves. After harvesting, the leaves have to dry in the air. Then the leaves are rolled by hand to release the enzymes and start the oxidation. This creates the final color and taste of the tea. After rolling, the tea must oxidize for a few hours, before they get baked in a hot air oven.

A fresh, spicy tea with notes of citrus fruit and pink pepper. This tea is best when it is drunk pure.

The Darjeeling Snowview is a black tea from India. The tea is grown on a plantation in Darjeeling in Northwest India in the Himalayas. This village is surrounded by 20,000 hectares of tea plantations. The plantation is located at an altitude of 2200 meters. The tea plant is descended from the Camellia Sinensis which is better resistant for the climate in the high mountains. Darjeeling tea is considered the best, most prestigious, rarest black tea in the world. The leaves are picked by hand. About 2000 leaves are needed for one hundred grams of tea.

A black tea is a fully fermented tea. The Darjeeling can be harvested twice, a first picking "First Flush" and a second picking "Second Flush". This tea is from the second harvest. After the harvest, the leaves are laid to dry and rolled by hand. This is how the oxidation process begins. After a few hours of fermentation, the leaves will get baked in a hot air oven.

A fresh sweet tea with a taste of walnuts and wood. In the fragrance you can also smell a hint of walnuts, straw and antique wood. This relatively young Pu Er has a kind of ripeness, which is so characteristic of vintage tea.

The Pu Er 1997 is a black vintage tea from China. It is grown on a plantation in the province of Yunnan. Here it is grown according to traditional methods and especially selected by Madame Tseng for De Eenhoorn.

A vintage tea is a black tea that is fully fermented and has to ripe for a long time. The leaves of this tea were picked in 1997. After picking, the leaves are dried in the air to extract most moisture. This is called withering. If the leaves are flexible enough to be processed, they are rolled by hand to start the oxidation process. The leaves have to ferment for a few hours and then are baked in convection ovens. In the end, the tea is stored in jars for a number of years to continue to mature.