- Produced in Fuding City, Fujian Province, China
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Harvest Time: Mar 27, 2016.
- Dry Tea: thick and straight buds and tips, covered with plenty of white pekoe, has a few leaves.
- Tea Liquid: light yellow color, clean and bright.
- Flavor: sweet and slippery taste; has slight soymilk flavor; sweet aftertaste presents quickly.
- Tea Leaves: delicate, tender and smooth appearance.
- Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee)
The Silver Needle White Tea owns a beautiful name, Bai Hao Yin Zhen. Silver (Bai Hao) prefers to the white pekoe; while Needle (Yin Zhen) describes the appearance of the thick and straight tea buds, which have tips as straight and sharp as needles. When you brew this tea, the heat of water arouses the delicate fragrance of the tea. The nutritious substance spreads into the light yellow tea liquid. Take a sip, and you will feel the smooth tea liquid carrying a strong fragrance companioned with slight soymilk scent travelling down to your throat. Aftertaste comes quick, and will leave a long-lasting tender aroma in your mouth.
176℉ / 80℃
Use 3 Teaspoons / 3 Grams Tea
Brewing time : 5 - 8 mins
Glass tea cup : Glass Tea Mug with Infuser
176℉ / 80℃
Use 4 Grams Tea
6 steeps : rinse, 45s,60s,90s,105s,140s,180s
Gaiwan : Double Blue Lines Gaiwan - 110 ml
Tealicious brings you another kind of Silver Needle White Tea, also called Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese. This Silver Needle White Tea is made of the buds of large-leaf white tea, not fermented. Its sweet and smooth taste will be sure worth your praise. White tea can be stored for a long time.
Silver Needle White Tea has elegant appearance. The buds are of the length between 1.5 cm to 2.0 cm in neat and even size. A bud surrounded by tea leaf is called one bud and one leaf shape, or one bud and two leaves shape. This kind of shape of white tea has the same name as green tea’s, bird-tongue. The tea has bird-tongue-like leaves will be regarded as high quality. While comparing to our Organic Silver Needle White Tea, this Silver Needle White Tea is smaller in size, but has stronger fragrance.
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.
Tealicious's Silver Needle White Tea is from Fuding in Fujian province, on the south eastern Chinese coast.