China approved a revised national standard for Zhenghe white tea, GB/T 22109-2026, its first in 18 years, widening its quality rules to more grades and to compressed white tea.
Read the Full Account →A saying offered as old wisdom about aged white tea, and the small, datable change in its own wording that the record actually holds.
The lowest-caffeine reputation of pure-bud white tea holds in the cup but fails at the reason, and the buds themselves run the story backward.
The independent register of white tea: silver needle, bai mudan, gong mei, and shou mei, the buds and leaves of Camellia sinensis that are withered, dried, and otherwise left alone. What the styles are, where Fuding ends and Zhenghe begins, what the withering hours do, what the years change, and how to brew it. Entered precisely. Nothing added.