Tea List Gallery: White & Other Lightly Oxidized Teas
We have included what traditionally have been called white tea, yellow tea and the recently hip shengcha pu’er in its fresh form in this category. This is so designed such that the nature of these various groups of tea is immediately definable by the category title and the similar changes in biochemistry through production. This is intended for both the trade and the end users for understanding the nature a genuine product.
This gallery aims at showcasing visually the range of this tea category. For more about the nature of this tea category, please visit this page: White & other lightly oxidized teas.
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- Zhenghe White Peony, or Bai Mudan 政和白牡丹. Top quality batch. Local producers refer to this as Mudan Wang (King of White Peony)
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- A finest quality Fuding White Peony, freshly made.
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- Wild tea maocha 野生毛茶, Laos, a white tea by nature and is collected by the Chinese as an ingredient for shengcha pu’er. Produced in a process close to the white tea process, this is also a lightly oxidized tea like white tea is. Produced from a cultivar of the assamica variety and is entirely different from the Dabai group.
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- Semi-black White 加揉白牡丹 from Fuding Fujian, as inspired by Taiwan’s “Dongfang Meiren”
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- Silver Needle, aka Baihao Yinzhen 白毫銀針 The oldest form of white tea made from the Dabai group of cultivars in Fuding, Fujian. 20057 | 8722
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- White Peony aka Bai Mudan 白牡丹, This authentic white tea is from Fuding and made in the local style using the Fuding Dabai cultivar, special grade, matured for 1 year. 20197 | 8730
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- Matured White Peony, Zhenghe. A Mudan Wang ( King of White Peony ) matured for 8 years at the time of photo.
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- Tea discuses made with Fuding White Peony, aka Bai Mudan 白牡丹, new (lighter) and matured (darker). White tea is in nature the same category as shengcha and therefore can be matureable.
