SilverTip white tea

White tea is a slightly fermented tea with its body covered withfluffy white hair. The general processing for Chinese white teaonly includes two steps: withering and drying. White tea brews toa pale yellow/light red color, and has a slightly sweet flavor withno "grassy" undertones which sometimes associated withgreen tea.

Recent health research results have pointed to Chinese white teaas potentially having the largest amount of health benefits of anyof the Chinese teas made from Camellia sinensis. The most popularChinese white teas: silver tip white tea and white peony tea.

History of white tea

According to different variety of tea plant and pluckingstandard,Chinese white tea were ever divide into three types:

• (1) Big white: the white tea made from fresh tea leaves pluckedfrom "Big White Tea" variety.
• (2)Narcissus White: white tea made from fresh tea leaves pluckedfrom "narcissus white" variety.
• (3)vegetable white:white tea made from fresh tea leaves pluckedfrom "vegetable white" variety.

Silver tip white tea (or silver needle pekoe) made from singlebuds plucked from "Big White Tea" variety. White peonytea made from one bud with two/three leaves plucked from "BigWhite Tea" variety or Narcissus White.

The history of white tea manufacturing is shorter than other teatypes. As recorded, white tea was firstly created in Fuding countyin 1796. In that time, the farmers plucked the fresh tea leavesfrom "vegetable white" variety to make silver tip whitetea. And, the "Big White Tea" variety was found in Fudingabout in 1857. Since 1885, the farmers began to pluck fresh tealeaves from "Big White Tea" variety to make silver tipwhite tea, which called Big white in that time. And, the silvertip white tea from "vegetable white" variety then so called"unrefined neelde" or "small white".

The "Big white" variety was also found in Zhenghe in1880. The tea farmes began to produce silver tip white tea in 1889.Till 1922, white peony tea was then produced there. White peonytea was firstly created in Shuijie( Jianyang county nowadays). While,it's not sured when white peony tea was created.

The white tea production began from Fuding, then spread to ShuiJie,then Zhenghe. As to white tea products, silver tip white tea wasfirstly creasted, then white poeny tea, then longevity eyebrow.

The export business for silver tip white tea began from 1891.Since 1910, Chinese white tea tend to be popular in Europe and Americalike Chinese congou black tea.

• Silver Tip white tea

  Silver tip white tea produced at Fuding and Zhengheareas in Fujian province.It a top grade white tea. Singlebuds are plucked right when they fully develop and areready to open. The beautifully acerose buds are coveredwith silvery hairs,hence the tea named "silver tipwhite tea".It's taken as "the beauty" inteas.Tea lovers describe it as "white like cloud,green like dream, pure like snow, aromatic like orchid".When infusing, every bud stands in the cup upright justlike bamboo shoots after a spring rain. SilverTip white tea

• White Peony tea

  White peony tea is also known as "Pai Mu Dan".Whitepeony tea is made from the buds and leaves that remainafter the famous silver tip white tea has been harvested.Its sweet and mild, yet very full-bodied. The cup coloris darker and the aroma bolder, the natural sweetnessclearly identifies the close relationship to the silvertip white tea. whitepeony tea

• longevity eyebrow

  The producing method for longevity eyebrow is similar to that for white peony tea. The difference between them is the material.White peony tea uses one bud with 1-2 leaf as material, while longevity eyebrow uses one bud with 3-4 leaf as material. Since the bud of the tea is slim and curl like eyebrow, so called longevity eyebrow.

  
  
• Fujian new craft white tea

  Fujian new white tea is a white tea made by new producingcraft.Fujian New white tea doesn't request tender tealeaves like white peony tea or longevity eyebrow. Theprocessing of FUji