The Trust

The Silver Needle Trust is an independent body of record devoted to one class of tea: white tea, the withered and dried leaf of Camellia sinensis. It was constituted to hold the leaf untouched, and it keeps the register: the styles and their grades, the two origin counties, the withering hours, the aging years, every figure checked against a real source. Matters that belong to the sister institutions of the United Federation of Tea Taxonomy are linked across, not written here.