MA WEI MOONLIGHT | white

MA WEI MOONLIGHT is a shade-dried yue guang bai—"moonlight white"—from outer Simao, central Yunnan, China. This production from our partners at Ma Wei Shan is bud-heavy at a mostly 1:1 (1 bud : 1 leaf) pluck (with some 1:2 plucks). We selected their shade-dried version over sun-dried; the deep sugars and high floral character of shade-dried yue guang bai outdid the rich, "cooked" flavors of the same tea sun-dried that year. The farm is an organic certified plantation spanning several mountains, with slopes of tea trees averaging 30 years old. Our yue guang bai is made with their highest elevation (1200 m.) large leaf material typically reserved for their factory pu'er production. An autumn harvest, this tea is fresh with luscious body and intense huigan (lingering sweetness in the throat). Much like our FUDING BAI MUDAN, an identically processed white tea of da bai ("big white") cultivar material from Fuding, MA WEI MOONLIGHT is hand-plucked, briefly withered, and dried indoors with fa