Tagged: silver needle
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.
Silver Needle Pours the Least Caffeine, and Processing Is Not Why
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.
Brewing White Tea
The complete reference for brewing white tea: water temperature by grade, dose, gongfu and western parameters, multiple infusions, cold brew, aged and compressed cakes, and what the ISO and GB tasting standards specify.
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.
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.