Tagged: fuding
Article · science
One Year Tea, Three Years Medicine, Seven Years Treasure
A saying offered as old wisdom about aged white tea, and the small, datable change in its own wording that the record actually holds.
Guide · Origins & Terroir
Fuding and Zhenghe
White tea's two home counties in Fujian, how their terroir, cultivars, and withering traditions differ, and what an origin does and does not tell a buyer.
Guide
The History of White Tea
The white tea class, the withered-and-dried leaf, is a Qing-dynasty Fujian invention and not the Song tea that shares its name: silver needle from about 1796, the Da Bai cultivars, the export century, and the recent aged-white revival.
Guide · Basics
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.