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Guide · Styles & Grades
White Tea Grades
How white tea is classified into silver needle, bai mudan, gong mei, and shou mei, keyed to what is plucked and which cultivar under China's GB/T 22291 standard, and why grade sets price more than quality.
Guide
Withering
How the leaf loses its water and becomes white tea: the sun room and the heated room, what the enzymes do while it waits, how a maker judges it finished, and what light itself has been found to change.