Supreme Silver Needle

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
White Tea
Flavors
Creamy, Floral, Honeysuckle, Melon, Sweet, White Chocolate
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Izzy
Average preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “The first tea in my teapro subscription box. Yep, I’ve decided to do a tea subscription to see what it’s like. When it comes to “real” tea with beautiful complex flavours and many many steeps...” Read full tasting note
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Silver Needle: only the youngest, most tender downy buds are picked for this exquisite tea, giving it a silky texture as well as a melon-like sweet aroma, making it into China’s most celebrated steeps.

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The first tea in my teapro subscription box. Yep, I’ve decided to do a tea subscription to see what it’s like. When it comes to “real” tea with beautiful complex flavours and many many steeps revealing new layers… I’m kind of lacking in knowledge. I read the awesome detailed reviews here on Steepster (particularly those from Derk and eastkyteaguy) and I feel inspired to kick the supermarket/grocery store tea habit and explore more. But I’m on a budget and I need a little help with detecting flavours sometimes.

So, this “exploring tea” subscription seemed perfect. A chance to get the basics down at least. With a fairly empty cupboard (apart from the box of tea bags) it’s not like I’m going to run out of space.

Anyway, the actual tea. It’s excellent although I don’t have anything to compare it to at this point. The buds are so fluffy! They smell pretty good too, very fresh and fragrant.

I steeped 1 generous teaspoon for 3 minutes, managing to get 3 steeps out of it in total. The aroma is very fresh melon – but not quite ripe melon. It’s not sweet enough to be ripe but it’s very strong in aroma.

Flavour-wise, melon again. But it’s gentle and a little bit creamy. Slightly floral too – honeysuckle perhaps. In my last steep which lasted 9+ minutes, I had this hit of white chocolate. The description card that came with this tea (very helpful with determining flavours) has it down as “floral, melon, honey, cucumber” so I got 3 out of the 4.

I had the first cup at about 7pm and the last around 10pm. I slept very very well, this tea made me feel very peaceful.

I’m going to try the other 3 teas and then write up a combined blog review for the subscription box. In the meantime, I’m definitely looking out for more silver needle teas to try.

Flavors: Creamy, Floral, Honeysuckle, Melon, Sweet, White Chocolate

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec 2 tsp 10 OZ / 300 ML
Bluegreen

I will be looking foward to your review of the Teapro subscription: I do not know much about them. They for sure have a colorful web site!

Izzy

Thanks Bluegreen!

derk

Is the Teapro subscription your introduction to loose leaf tea? It’ll be fun :)

Izzy

It’s more of an introduction to really tasting the loose leaf tea, instead of relying on added flavours and fruits and bits :)

Kittenna

Sounds delicious! I’ll be interested to watch for your reviews of the teas you get :)

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