Premium quality organic Silver Needle White Tea
- Organically grown at Mt. Taimu in Fujian, China
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Harvest Time: April 28, 2016
- Tea buds covered in white hairs
- Pale golden color when brewed
- A subtle, slightly flowery, sweet, lingering taste
- Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee)
We at Tealicious have carefully selected our organic Silver Needle White Tea to make sure it is absolute premium quality. When brewed, it has a pale golden color and subtle flowery fragrance. The taste of Tealicious's Silver Needle is delicate, without any bitterness or strong flavour.
176℉ / 80℃
Use 2 Teaspoons / 2 Grams Tea
Brewing time : 3 - 5 mins
Glass tea cup : Clear Glass Tea Cup with Handle
176℉ / 80℃
Use 5 Grams Tea
6 steeps : rinse,45s,60s,90s,105s,140s,180s
Gaiwan : Double Blue Lines Gaiwan - 110 ml
Tealicious's Silver Needle White Tea, or Baihao YinZhen as it is called in China, is the highest grade of White Tea. It consists only of the top unopened tea leaf buds, and doesn't contain any opened leaves. Amazingly, one kilogram of this tea typically contains approximately 120,000 buds. When you look at our high quality Silver Needle White Tea, you will see how it gets it's name – the bud is covered in a down-like covering of fine white hairs, and so the bud looks like a white needle.
When brewed, we at Tealicious have carefully selected our Organic Silver Needle tea to make sure it has a pale golden yellow color and subtle flowery fragrance – characteristics of the premium Silver Needle teas. The taste of Tealicious's Organic Silver Needle is delicate, without any bitterness or strong flavour. This year because the temperature of Spring is relative higher than last year so that the tea grow quickly. This made the picking work so hurry that there may be some small leaves around the buds. And the quantity is also limited this year.
Brief Health Info
White tea contains various functional components, including caffeine, tea polyphenol, tea polysaccharide, theaflavin, theanine and so on, which are beneficial for human health in multiple aspects. For example, tea polypgenol can anti-aging, by antioxidation and clearing free radical away; caffeine is diuretic due to its function of restraining the re-absorbing of sodium, chloridion and water; flavanols, and also caffeine, help to refresh mind and remove fat.
For more information on the remarkable health benefits of Tealicious's White Teas, see our article on General Health Benefits of Tea.
Where is this Silver Needle White Tea Produced
Tealicious's Silver Needle White Tea is from Mt. Taimu in Fujian province, on the south eastern Chinese coast.
This tropical mountainous coastal area is perfect for growing White Tea. It has abundant rainfall and temperatures that are neither too hot in summer nor too cold in winter. The mountains around the farms are more than 80% forested, ensuring the soil has a high natural fertility and organic content, removing the need to use fertilizers.