Posts Tagged ‘silver needle’

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 [...]

White Tea is said to be the subtlest of all varieties. When we choose Loose White Tea instead of tea bags, we get only the finest and youngest tea leaves from each tea plant that have been only minimally processed. Loose leaf white tea has a light and delicate taste with sweet and mild vegetal [...]

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 [...]