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“This Silver Needle is really quite lovely. One of the finest I think I’ve yet to encounter. Delicate, yes, but also intensely flavored … surprisingly so. Notes of cucumber and hay, as well as a...” Read full tasting note
“Backlogging from yesterday since the site was buggered, good to see it’s back up and running well. It looks like any other Silver Needle tea, long fuzzy buds. These ones turn green the instant you...” Read full tasting note
“I am definitely getting a melon/cucumber flavor as well as a sweet grass taste. White teas are never my favorite and I usually group them in “drink when desperate” category. That being said it...” Read full tasting note
“A lovely tea, pale, flavorful, excellent. Has hints of what they call melon, but I’d call cucumber, slightly tangy, and an overall really excellent tea enjoyed by my whole family.” Read full tasting note
Silver Needle White Tea with a white downy appearance comes from the province of Fujian. The Silvery Needle, highest quality white tea, is picked during the spring before the buds open to preserve its tenderness. Exquisite and delicate, Silvery Needle has a fresh, sweet fragrance and produces a pale yellow brew. Brewing with a Yixing (ee-shing) teapot can best show the aroma of Silvery Needle. This tea has high concentrations of polyphenols (antioxidants that help fight against cancer-causing free-radicals and heart disease).
White Downy Silvery Needle gets its name because it consists of nothing but needle shaped buds that are covered with lots of tiny whitish hairs. This extremely rare tea from Jianyang county in the Fujian province is only harvested for two days every year and originally came from wild mountain trees. Not being satisfied with the most tender green tea leaves, the ancient tea connoisseurs looked for something even more delicate: the tea leaves before they had even burst from the bud. In early spring when the buds are fully grown and are just about to open, they are plucked from the end of branches along with a few attached leaves. Buds of about an inch long are picked out for the finest quality tea which is White Downy Silvery Needle. There is hardly any processing involved in producing white tea and the enzymes in the buds and leaves are denatured by steaming almost immediately after picking to prevent fermentation. White tea is said to be good for stimulating the digestive system.
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Dull sweetness reminiscent taste of licorice and sometimes chamomile. Mineral and almost spicy flavour. I am detecting the typical white (what I call) swampy note. I was served this at PekoeTea and was presently surprised to discover that the tea in my pot (with free-floating tea leaves) did well even past the initial 3 minute infusion. It also held up well to subsequent infusions- about 2 re-infusions but I feel as if it could have taken more.
Flavors: Licorice, Mineral, Spicy, Sweet
