Nowadays, more and more tea drinkers love white tea. As a high-grade white tea, Silver Needle Baihao is naturally more popular among tea drinkers. To judge the quality of Silver Needle Baihao, we generally start from three perspectives: the mountain, raw materials and craftsmanship.
The 2024 Taimu Mountain Baihao Silver Needle that I want to bring to you today has the same excellent quality as the Taimu Silver Needle that was widely praised in previous years. The mountain farm, raw materials, and craftsmanship are all excellent. It is suitable for product and storage, and can be used in the future. In the past, any place that produced good tea was inseparable from its unique geographical environment.
Taimu Mountain is the core producing area of Fuding white tea. It is located on the coast of the East China Sea, facing the sea on three sides and mountains on one side. The soil is alternating with rocks and gravels, and the soil is acidic. It is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. Any place that produces good tea cannot do without its unique geographical environment. Taimu Mountain is the core production of white tea in Fuding. district. It is located on the coast of the East China Sea, facing the sea on three sides and mountains on one side. It has alternating rocks and gravels, and the soil is acidic, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees.
As in previous years, this Taimu Silver Needle comes from Taimu Mountain, the core production area, and is harvested in the early spring of 2024. The tea leaves are rich in substance, the soup is full and durable, the mountain flavor is strong, and the soup is sweet and fresh.
In terms of variety, this tea is Fuding Dabai. The raw materials of Fuding white tea are mainly Fuding Dahao, Caicha and Fuding Dabai, among which Fuding Dahao is the more common. Nowadays, the planting amount of Fuding Dabai tea trees is decreasing day by day, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to see white tea made from Fuding Dabai as raw material on the market. White tea made from Fuding Dabai will have a more obvious long orchid color. Rhyme, the tea soup will be sweeter.
Therefore, in recent years, many friends who know tea have begun to taste and collect Fuding Dabai. Taimu Mountain is the birthplace of Baihao Silver Needle, so its silver needle production technology is mature and outstanding, and it can be called the representative of white tea.
Because this Taimu Silver Needle is a bud picked in the first spring of this year. The picked fresh leaves are not rubbed or fried. They can only be dried in the sun and wither naturally. This step seems simple, but in fact it requires a good grasp of natural conditions and technology. They all have strict requirements: continuous sunny days, a temperature of about 20 degrees, a relative air humidity of 50%-60%, and even the wind direction and site will all have an impact on the results of pure sunlight withering.
The tea leaves that have been naturally withered have a relatively more elegant taste, a restrained and subtle aroma, a longer and graceful floral fragrance, and a stronger transformation potential.
In the drying stage, the tea leaves are slowly dried using the traditional charcoal roasting method. The tea leaves are charcoal-roasted twice until they are transparent, making the soup more mellow and conducive to later transformation.
The dry tea needles are white, with dense pekoe and high dryness. Because Taimu Mountain has high altitude, large temperature difference, and strong wind, the buds of this silver needle are shorter than those in other mountains in Fuding. The moment the boiling water is poured, It is the home of the pure fragrance, rich and clear, accompanied by a faint milky fragrance.
Starting from the second course, the floral aroma gradually emerges, and the fresh and sweet aroma gradually emerges, with a long orchid floral aroma. The tea soup is rich in layers, sweet and refreshing, the water is smooth and delicate, and it becomes sweeter after five brews. The aftertaste is full, the tea soup is swallowed, the body fluid is produced quickly, and the aftertaste is long and sweet.
This silver needle is very resistant to foaming and can be brewed for 10-20 times. The distinctive aroma at the bottom of the leaves shows that the ecological environment in which it grows is good. Tea lovers who like a fresh and refreshing soup can enjoy its taste now, while tea lovers who like a mellow taste may wish to store it patiently for a while. Judging from the high quality of this Taimu Silver Needle, its transformation space is very large, and the future is promising. It is still recommended that everyone collect it and continue to store it.
brewing method:
Tea utensil: tureen or purple clay (130ml)
Tea quantity: 5g
Water: purified water, mountain spring water
Water temperature: 100℃
Brewing: First, moisten the tea with boiling water, and slowly pour water at fixed points along the wall of the cup, or in slow circles. There is no need to wash the tea. Then control the soup time according to your personal taste. Lower water temperature will make it sweeter, and higher water temperature will make it more mellow.