A bud-only white tea with soft sweetness, haylike aromatics, and a luminous pale cup.
Recipe
- Temperature 85 °C · 185 °F
- Leaf 4.5 g
- Water 250 ml
- First steep 3:00
- Each next steep +0:45
- Steeps 3
Lore
White tea is the least touched of all: buds plucked, withered, dried, nothing more. Silver Needle took its modern form around Fuding in the late eighteenth century.