Camellia sinensis: White Tea
White tea is the least processed of all tea types. Allowed to dry with minimal human intervention from the time it is plucked, the leaves oxidize and twist as if they had fallen from the tree. White tea is also commonly avaliable as bud-only with the silvery white down covering still visible and adds to the flavor.
White Day and Tea Gifts
Since I received some things for Valentine’s Day, I gave gifts for White Day… Including tea!
The Japanese White Tea Odyssey – Part 2
I was able to get some sweet and rough flavor out of the two teas.
The Japanese White Tea Odyssey – Part 1
I was contacted because a Japanese tea farmer in Kyushu was experimenting with a white tea!
Tea Poetry: Rohini Exotic Emperor White
Captured quarters, remnants of tulips, the butchering of spring merging to monsoons, imperfect buds, fractured leaves, wrinkled potential. We collected dampened hay as stubborn bouquets, astringent potential, unassuming innocence - another year ear-marked in a...
Antimicrobial Effects of White Tea
Guest contribution by: Dr. Milton Schiffenbauer, PhD The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches, body aches, kidney trouble, poor digestion, and ulcers to depression. In fact,...
Three Alternatives to Regular Black Tea: Green Tea, White Tea, Red Tea
Guest post by Dakota Murphey Did you know that, after water, tea is the most popular drink in the world? Not so surprising when you consider that 165 million cups of tea are drunk every day in the UK alone. After Turkey and Ireland, the UK is the third biggest tea...
Why Buying a Silver Needle White Tea is Always a Risky Task
Guest post by: William Bailey If you ever tried Silver Needle white tea and didn't understand why there is so much fuss about it, there might be a logical explanation. Maybe you have bought the wrong tea. Silver Needle is probably the most popular of all white teas,...
Review: Ya Bao wild tea white pu’er buds
This is part of a longer post on exploring the Bangkok Chinatown, which will post in my personal blog, Tea in the Ancient World, after appearing here in TChing. Review of Ya Bao, wild tea buds white pu’er from the Sen Xing Fa shop The Ya Bao looks like tea buds, but...
Illustrated review: The magic of white tea
“…Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” - Rumi Fluffy snowflakes dance and float, piling softly one on top of other. In the same moment, the silvery hairs of white tea float and dance, delicate as snowflakes in my cup. Snow is white, yet white tea is not...
Illustrated Review: David’s Tea Royal White Peony
Hailing from the Fujian Province is the graceful Bai Mu Dan or Pai Mu Tan tea, which means “white peony” in Chinese. Royal White Peony tea is enjoyed by steeping a single bud and two leaves. Tealicious and delicate, the petals gently unfurl as leaves swirl in an...
Illustrated Review: Organic Imperial Fuding Silver Needle White Tea
"You are sunny and full of festive stars which float in my heart." - J.R. Cook Delicate, fresh, and slightly sweet perfectly describes the flavor and fragrance of this rare tea named for its tight, fat needle shape. The beautifully large, fleshy leaf buds are...
Three Years Medicine: Aged White Tea
When I moved to China in 2010, I had already been interested in tea for about seven years. I had served tea to lots of people all over the world in a purely gregarious sense, and also in a professional capacity
White tea phenomena
This summer, when I traveled back to China, I found white tea had become popular. When I visited friends, almost all offered me white tea. They also told me that white tea was good for health.
Two Styles of White Tea
I hated my first white tea experience. It was a Lipton white tea blend in a tea bag and it put me off of white tea for years. Then I had real white tea: Silver Needle. Made with tea buds, Sliver Needle tea brews a rich delicate liquid…
An Uphill Battle Remains in Cultivating a Taste For White Tea
Return to T Ching Classics: White Day, White TeaWhat is your favorite tea? This is a question whose answer for many varies by season, time of day, and reason for drinking it. For me, it’s remained pretty consistent for the last four years - Silver Needle. It seems...
The Visible Effects of White Tea
Return to T Ching Classics: White Day, White TeaEighty percent of our skin's weight is from collagen, the protein that keeps our skin in shape from the inside out. Beauty products have targeted this large population of proteins for a reason - its degeneration is...
Get the skinny on white tea
Monkey Picked White Tea , The Tea Spot After three consecutive months of having fun with tea and sweet indulgences, for this month I’d promised a post on tea as an aid in weight loss. Quite timely…I’m sure I’m not the only one out there looking to wipe off a few...
Subtlety in tea tasting – or how to fall in love with white tea
White teas are the least processed of all teas. Traditional white teas are mostly grown in Fujian Province, China. They are generally picked when the buds are tightly enclosed in new leaves. This retains a silky, downy quality in the leaves. When you first drink...