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Silver Tips White Tea from Teapigs

Steepster Score 4 Ratings Rate This Tea

81/100

Silver Tips White Tea

White Tea by Teapigs

About this tea:
For two hours in the morning, for two weeks of the year in the Chinese Fujian province where white tea is grown, the pluckers are in the fields at first light to catch the early morning shoots. These are then withered naturally in the sun and sent to people who appreciate this kind of thing (i.e. teapigs). Possibly the most exclusive tea we stock.

Compare the large leaf in our tea temples to the dust in your regular tea bag; whole leaf is best.

Taste:
Refreshing, light and aromatic. Peaches and apricots. Very pure. We have chosen to bring you genuine white rather than green tea masquerading as white tea. If your white tea looks green in the cup, then it is green tea – watch out for fakes.

Try it:
Simply pure. Adding anything would be like drawing glasses on the Mona Lisa.

Good if you’re feeling:
Impure of thought, word or deed. Forget the rosary and the Hail Marys – redeem yourself with a cup of this gorgeous white tea, crammed full of antioxidants.

4 Tasting Notes

QueenOfTarts
80

I didn’t really know what to expect from this tea. I like Teapigs tea, but I’m also quite fond of FLAVORED white tea, not plain. That being said, this is a very interesting cup. I like that it has different layers: a little bit of sweet grass and a little bit of vegetables. I’m not sure that I would like to have boxes upon boxes of this tea, but it is naturally nice.

susansbeeswax
73
susansbeeswax 2 tasting notes

Needless to say, any tea by a company that calls themselves “TeaPig” can’t be less than absolutely fabulous. And Silver Tips White Tea lives up to the TeaPig standards!! I had a cup today! So lovely! Will have to have another cup tomorrow!

Another day, another lovely cup of tea. There’s no “I” in tea, but there’s a lot of tea in it!

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Phil Hale
93

And so began my tea-tasting adventure…

How long will it last? My progress on Steepster will no doubt be the best judge of that. Looking above the steam over Georgian rooftops in Bath, this tea left me feeling refreshed and eager for more. I don’t know much about tea, but I felt the two cups I got from the pot took me on a sort of journey between different energy levels.

Initially the heat from the water lulled me into a receptive state, gently sipping the lightly-tinted water and searching for the taste. I slipped into its smooth palate, feeling the caffeine stir my senses.

Perhaps the TicTac slogan, a “little lift” would be appropriate here. I was gently restored for an afternoon of shopping, without the familiar jittery fever accompanied by harsher teas.

I can only hope the other less common teas around these waters are as pleasant.