Silver Needle

Tea: Silver Needle (Yinzhen)Type: Fuding White TeaHarvest: Early March, 2025Region: Panxi, Fuding, FujianProducers: Yuanming Tea Garden Tasting notes: baked doughnut, honeysuckle, roasted peanut, sweetgrass, cream Silver Needle is one of our all-time favorite teas, but not a tea we would recommend to beginners.  The beauty in this tea is in its subtlety, its consistency, and in its unmistakable Chaqi.  A session with this tea is conducive to a quiet, blissful mood, rather than an edge-of-the-seat rollercoaster experience one would get with a Dancong Oolong or young raw puer tea.  The Silver Needle has always been one of the most refined, exquisite, and alas, expensive teas available in the Chinese tea market, but one session with this excellently sourced tea should show you exactly why this is. The dry leaves give off a heavy and savory nutty aroma backboned by its green vegetation, which when warmed releases sugary notes redolent of baked doughnuts and sweet overtones of honeysuckle.