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White Tea

White Tea

White teas capture a moment in spring, and feature some of the freshest harvest flavors and aromas. Their distinguishing feature, a covering of fine, downy white hair, adds a sweetness to the tea.

Our Silver Needle, the most famous white, is made using the traditional “Bai Hao” cultivar with flavors of melon, peach, and fresh apricot.

White Tea
  • 3 Lands Sampler

    3 Lands Sampler

    3 Lands Sampler: In many countries, tea is a signature beverage. Distinct cultivars have been created and farmed, methods of processing developed bringing forth aromas and flavors that are delicious and widely enjoyed. Our sampler offers a taste...
    3 lands, 3 teas & 3 flavors

  • Aged White Peony

    Aged White Peony

    One of spring's visual and taste delights has been "rested" or aged. In the intervening period, the tea has developed a deeper, rounder taste and a darker appearance more to the traditional style Bai Mu Dan. Now, 8 years aged, tea is showing darker...
    Aged, sweet, honeysuckle, floral.
  • Aged White Peony - Rare

    Aged White Peony - Rare

    Harvested in the spring of 2001, this aged White Peony was grown in Zhenghe County. When Silk Road Teas purchased this lot, it was rated as highest-grade leaf (known as Zhending Big White - cultivar Zhenghe Da Bai). The bushes are members of the Da Hao...
    Deep naturally sweet, herbaceous notes. Harvested 2001

  • Drum Mountain White Cloud

    Drum Mountain White Cloud

    Grown at the higher elevations of the Guo Shan Mountains along the coast of Fujian Province, this tea was made popular by Buddhist monks who cultivated fields surrounding their monastery. In time, the tea became a source of revenue for the monastery as...
    Flavor of honey

  • Silver Needle - Yin Zhen

    Silver Needle - Yin Zhen

    Yin Zhen is a variety of remarkable and ethereal Chinese teas made with exacting skill in harvesting and processing. In its pure form and most traditional form, YinZhen or Silver Needle, is made of tender spring buds from a cultivar historic to Fujian...
    Silky smooth, flavors of apricot & honeysuckle

  • Silver Needle - Yinzhen

    Silver Needle - Yinzhen

    Yin Zhen is a variety of remarkable and ethereal Chinese teas made with an exacting skill in plucking, handling, and processing. A delicacy, it is made using a fine pluck standard in which only buds are harvested. We think this lot captures the...
    Spring flavors, honey, fresh apricot

  • White Peony

    White Peony

    Harvested early April 2023, our lot is Pre-Qing Ming made of unopened silver buds and fresh green leaves. White tea (Bai Cha) is perhaps the most natural of the Chinese teas. Picked, withered and dried, the leaves are presented as they naturally appear...
    Notes of honey & herbs
  • organic Organic

    White Peony - Organic

    Perhaps the most natural of China's teas - White Peony is a mix of early spring pluck leaves offering vibrant colors and a range of flavors from grapes to honeysuckle and nectar.Teas was grown in Fuding county, the birthplace of white tea and...
    Organic, vibrant colors, flavors of melon & honey.