Silver Needle White Tea

A premium tea that has exquisite haunting hints of peach with a fresh lingering finish. This is one of China’s best white teas.

The leaves come from a special varietal tea bush called Narcissus or chaicha bushes. They are not steamed or pan-fired, as is the case in green tea. These leaves are withered and dried naturally under semi-controlled conditions. If mechanical drying is required the leaves are baked (not fired) at temperatures less than 40°C. Only special leaves are selected. These leaves must show a very light green almost gray white color and be covered with velvet peach fuzz down. The ideal is a leaf or two being wrapped around a newly developing shoot. These shoots are plucked and segregated from the rest of the leaf being plucked. These leaves are then naturally withered and the painstaking process manual sorting to select the long ‘furry’ white tip occurs.

Silver White Needle Tea is the top grade available and very rare. You will see the long white needles covered with furry down and a very uniform appearance – hallmarks of very rare white tea.