Peony White Needle White Tea - Loose Leaf - 8oz Review
Peony White Needle White Tea - Loose Leaf - 8oz Feature
- Peony White Needle is a white tea from the Chongqing Province of China.
- It has a delicate lingering fragrance, and a fresh, mellow-sweet taste devoid of astringency or grassy flavor.
- The production of white tea is very different than green tea. The leaves come from a special varietal tea bush called Narcissus or Chaicha bushes
- Peony White Needle Tea is the top grade white tea available and very rare - hence its high cost
- For the best brew, Peony White Needle White Tea should steep in steaming water (150 - 180° F) for 1-4 minutes.
Peony White Needle is a white tea from the Chongqing Province of China. It has a delicate lingering fragrance, and a fresh, mellow-sweet taste devoid of astringency or grassy flavor. The production of white tea is very different than green tea. The leaves come from a special varietal tea bush called Narcissus or Chaicha bushes, and they are not steamed or pan-fired as is green tea, but are dried and withered in the sun. If mechanical drying is required, the leaves are baked (not fired) at temperatures less than 40° C. Importantly, only "two leaves and a bud" are used in these blends, and they 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.
Peony White Needle Tea is the top grade white tea available and very rare - hence its high cost. In this tea, you will see two intact grayish-white leaves that surround a silver bud. The two leaves and bud that adhere to the stem in a uniform manner are covered with a silvery white down. For the best brew, Peony White Needle White Tea should steep in steaming water (150 - 180° F) for 1-4 minutes.
