Silver Needle 🇨🇳

Silver Needle // Bai Hao Yin Zhen 
White Tea
From Fo zi Mountain, Zheng he County, Fujian Province, China.

25g Caddy
or
Zero Waste Refill (compostable bag) with discount code: REFILL
This tea is organically grown!

An exquisite tea comprising of soft plump, downy silver unopened buds, that have vibrant greens, beautiful greys and whites giving an amazingly bright, grassy and sweet aroma. The wet leaf is vibrant green opening with warming, creamy aromas. The pale gold tea soup is a soft, honey sweet, creamy flavour becoming a smoother, thicker taste with a rich, mellow flavour through the infusions. Like with many White teas, the flavours within the leaves become more pronounced as the water temperature cools. This Silver Needle never fails year on year,  to deliver as a high quality, refreshing experience.

Growning wild and uncultivated at around 800m using the Da Bai (Big White) cultivar. Hand picked & harvested in early Spring, with just single buds being picked. The buds are then processed with great care by the Chen Family following traditional methods. Sun drying techniques are used to retain the freshness of the spring leaves, due to the gentle natural oxidisation, this results in high levels of antioxidants remaining in the leaves.

Zheng He County is one of two core tea regions for White Tea in Fujian and the Fo zi Mountain tea gardens are considered wild mountain fields, in which the tea bushes are scattered throughout a variety of trees and forest area. Benefitting from the forest shade and the mountain’s mineral rich soils. 
Because of this environment a days tea picking will be around 2-2.5kg of buds from a single skilled picker, the 2.5kg of freshly picked buds/leaves can then only produce 500g of finished tea. Making this harvest a smaller batch process and therefore a specialty rare tea, the carefully picked and skilfully processed buds create a delightful finished tea indeed.

Brew Guide Per Cup:
Tea - 1 teaspoon (3g)
Water - 80ºc // 300ml
Brew time - 2 minutes
Reinfuse leaves x 2 to personal taste

Brew Guide - Gong Fu Style for Gaiwan
Tea 5g
Water 100ml / 75-80ºc
Time 20 seconds + adjust to personal taste
Reinfuse x 4-6 times