Tagged: withering

The Leaf Holds Its Water, Then Lets It Go

A monitored batch of withering white tea barely lost water for eight hours in the middle of the wait, then shed most of what remained in the final twelve, a shape now entered into the record.

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.

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.