Bai Mu Dan

Bai Mu Dan is a bud and leaf version of the traditional Silver Needle style bai cha (white tea) style. Including some leaf material in Bai Mu Dan helped meet the worldwide demand for white tea that would have been impossible to meet with a bud-only tea. The result can be just as delicious, however. Because white tea is processed so simply, it takes great leaf material to make great tea. 70% of the leaf material for this tea comes from the Chen’s ancestral family land in Wuyishan. The rest comes from the neighboring town of Zhenghe, another town famous for white tea. Their tea is considered to be the highest grade since it is grown on the “zhenyan”, or rocky soils unique to this region. The tea trees here are also allowed to grow naturally in spacious groves instead of carefully planted estate-style. The trees can be up to 100 years old. Plucked meticulously by hand, the Chen Family use traditional methods to maintain quality standards and produce stellar teas. Provenance: Origin: Wuy