Posts Tagged ‘China’

While Silver Needle is the highest quality tea, made entirely from youngest, most delicate tea leaves, White Peony wears the crown of China’s second best White Tea.
White Peony is locally known as Pai Mu Tan or Bai Mudan, which literally means white peony blossom. But there is no Peony in this tea, just a delicate [...]

While White Tea can actually be classified as a subgroup of Green Tea, it has recently gained a status of its own due to its high level of antioxidants. The reason why White Tea has much more antioxidants than Green Tea is in its production and minimal processing. White Teas are not fermented, but come [...]

Silver Needle Tea, also named Silver Tip White Tea, is the most prized of all white teas and is grown in the Fujian Province of China. This highest quality of white tea is called Bai Hao Yin Zhen (White Hair Silver Needles) and is produced from large, unopened sun-dried tea buds, covered with white downy [...]

Pure and unspoiled by oxidation white tea comes for the same camellia sinensis leaf plant as green tea, black tea and oolong tea. White tea is derived from younger leaves and buds that are inherently lower in caffeine than older leaves. After a very short fermentation the leaves are fast dried leaving all the active [...]