Silver Needle 白毫银针 (2025)

Wild Zhenghe White Tea from Fozi Mountain. Sweet, thick liquor made from scattered Da Bai bushes handpicked deep in the forest. Tea Profile Type: White Tea (Bai Cha 白茶) Location: Fozi Mountain (佛子山), Zhenghe County, Fujian Province Altitude: Around 800 m Harvest Date: April 5, 2025 Cultivar: Da Bai 大白 Garden Type: Wild mountain garden (荒山) The Story of This Tea Fozi Mountain lies within Zhenghe County, one of Fujian’s two core white tea regions alongside Fuding. The gardens here are known as huang shan (荒山), or wild mountain fields, where tea bushes grow naturally among native trees and wild plants. The tea is not cultivated in neat rows but scattered throughout the forest, thriving in the shade and mineral-rich soil of the mountain. To harvest this tea, skilled pickers venture deep into the forest to locate the scattered Da Bai bushes. Because of the difficult terrain and selective picking of only the finest buds, a picker can gather just 2 to 2.5 kilograms of fresh leaves per