Brewed Multiple Times
Damascus Rose is a popular floral tea among women due to its sweet, honey-like flavor and refreshing taste.
We always select the batch made from the first-plucked roses of the spring season, which gives it a very deep and clear aftertaste.
It has a completely different dimension of flavor compared to ordinary roses, with a sweet honey fragrance that emanates both externally and internally.
This tea can be steeped multiple times, up to 20 infusions. Even after half a day or a day later, its flavor hardly deteriorates.
It also pairs well with other teas, such as black tea. Adding 2 to 3 roses to black tea significantly enhances the sweet honey flavor, making it as fragrant as high-quality black tea.
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Many people have experienced drinking rose tea before.
When I first tried rose tea, I thought it smelled like cinnamon, pickles, or spices, and I instantly disliked it.
Because of this bitter experience, I avoided rose tea until I encountered Damascus Rose.
My first encounter was at a department store perfume section. I happened to need perfume and came across a sample of Damascus Rose essential oil.
The sample was intended to help customers understand that a particular brand of perfume generously used Damascus Rose.
When I smelled it, I was shocked and truly impressed.
It had a completely different aroma from the roses I knew. It was incredibly sweet, like honey.
Damascus Rose Rose Damascena has a distinctly different aroma compared to ordinary roses. The experience with Damascus Rose was so intense that I wanted to sell it as rose tea.
I searched various regions for the raw materials. Damascus Rose is mainly cultivated in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Iran.
However, most of it is used for extracting essential oils and does not circulate as tea. Essential oils are sold for tens of thousands of yen for just a few grams, so producers grow Damascus Rose for the high profit from perfume.
I sought out roses grown in the Gobi Desert in China's Xinjiang Region.
In this region, ethnic minorities cultivate roses organically, and the produced Damascus Rose circulates as rose tea.
Grown in desert areas with significant temperature differences between day and night, high-quality roses are produced.
To drink, it is common to brew Damascus Rose tea directly by pouring hot water. Usually, a few roses in a 200ml teapot are sufficient.
Enjoying Damascus Rose
Damascus Rose can be brewed multiple times, up to 20 infusions.
Even if you stop brewing and resume half a day or a day later, the flavor hardly deteriorates. It is recommended to place the teapot in the refrigerator when leaving it for a while.
My recommended way to enjoy delicious rose tea is to blend it with other teas.
My favorite method is to combine 2 to 3 Damascus Roses with green tea or white tea. The sweet flavor of Damascus Rose and the flavor of green tea complement each other incredibly well.
Damascus Rose also pairs very well with black tea. Adding just 2 to 3 roses to black tea significantly enhances the sweet honey flavor, making it as fragrant as high-quality black tea.
The key is not to add too many roses, but to adjust so that the fragrance is faintly present in the background.
My favorite way to drink it is to combine Pu-erh raw tea with Damascus Rose.
The rich taste of Pu-erh raw tea and the elegant flavor of roses create an excellent combination. Damascus Rose can be brewed many more times than black tea or green tea, so it is also an option to place the roses in a fair cup rather than directly in the teapot.
