Tasting Notes: honey maltiness, sour dough, mulling spices with a crisp fresh finish
Farm Location: Sanyang village, Fujian, China
Elevation: 1,000
Cultivsr: Mei Zhan
Picking: April 2018
Steep guide: 5g per 100ml. 85 degrees Celsius for 20 seconds add 5-10 for subsequent steeps.
I’m usually pretty bias towards fuding white tea but upon trying this I was forced to reconsider. This producer has added a unique step for white tea production. The leaves go through a bruising phase similar to wuyi oolong. This ends up accelerating the maltiness usually brought on by older aged white teas. This tea is from 2018 but feels much older, this plus the interesting transformation throughout the session.