Spring 2025 Jingmai Moonlight White

April 2025, natural tea gardens, white tea dried indoors Coarse grade, medium oxidation The ultimate grandmother's tea that will sooth you when you need intestine cuddles.     The Spring harvest is not always as busy as we'd like you to believe. When the bulk of the harvest sprouts, we're busy making puerh tea. Yet, the life of a tea maker involves an intense activity: waiting. Between the intense phases of the production run, some gardens will keep delivering leaves to the factory. To deal with these daily low volumes, we have dozens of flat bamboo baskets, on which we make white tea. Moonlight white is the traditional yunnan white tea, its making is simple, and yet requires time and room in the factory. The leaves are laid thinly on flat bamboo baskets and left to dry for two to three days. In early Spring, the air is very dry, and the leaves tend to lose their moisture too fast. We like a bit of oxidation in our whites, which leads us to lay the leaves in a thi