White · Fuding, Fujian, China
Bai Mudan
Low caffeine
White Peony: a bud and two leaves, withered and dried. Fuller than Silver Needle, with orchard sweetness and hay.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 85 °C · 185 °F
- Leaf
- 4 g
- Water
- 220 ml
- First steep
- 2:30
- Each next steep
- +0:30
- Steeps
- 3
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Aroma notes
white peach · hay · almond blossom
Tasting notes
soft · sweet · round
Harvest
March–April
Making
Plucking 
Withering 
Sorting
Origin
Fuding, Fujian · China
Fuding's sea air dries the leaf without hurrying it. The buds keep their down, and their sweetness.
Lore
One bud, two leaves: a fuller pluck than Silver Needle, named White Peony for the way the dried leaf opens like petals. Same Fuding gardens, same patient withering; the extra leaf trades some delicacy for warmth and body.
