Tagged: bai mudan
Can Science Tell If an Aged White Tea Is Really That Old?
Forcing a white tea to look aged with heat does not just fake its year. It destroys the enzymes the leaf needed to age for real, and a new imaging method can now check a claimed vintage against the leaf itself.
The cheaper white tea puts more in the cup
Silver needle costs about three times bai mudan, yet a normal brew of the cheaper bud-and-leaf tea delivers more theanine, caffeine, and catechin into the cup than the all-bud grade does.
Aging
How a kept white tea changes: the chemistry that softens astringency and darkens the cup over years, why Shou Mei and Bai Mudan get pressed into cakes, the standard that governs the pressed form, how to store one, and the market it has built.
What Is White Tea
White tea is the least-processed tea class: the bud and leaf of Camellia sinensis, withered and dried, no pan-fire and no rolling. What that names, the four grades, and the standard behind it.