


The most prized of all white loose leaf teas, these are the most perfect pick of the silver tip harvest.
Crafted entirely from the first tender spring buds, high in the remote mountains of Fujian and carefully sorted. These rarest tips are carefully selected only from the first day of the incredibly short harvest of around 5 days, just as the leaf buds reach maturity but before they unfurl to the first new leaves.
Also known as White Silver Needle and Baihao Yinzhen.
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*All prices quoted in USD and will be converted automatically at checkout.Tasting Notes
Sweet, clean and extremely elegant white tea, with hints of peach and apricot.
Quantity
Use 0.1 oz of leaf per 5.5 fl oz of water (2g per 150ml).
Temperature
For the optimum infusion use 158°F (70°C) water.
Time
Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.
Infusions
You can infuse this tea at least twice. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed
Cost Per Cup
$1.38 per cup based on 0.1 oz of leaf per 5.5 fl oz of water and 2 infusions.
WHITE SILVER TIPS
The very first Rare Tea
We have been bringing White Silver Tips back from China since 2003. It was the very first tea Henrietta (our founder) sourced for Rare Tea Company.
When we began trading in 2004 it was such an extremely rare and esoteric tea that it was pretty much unheard of. People used to ask if white tea wasn’t just tea with milk?
Even within China White Silver Tip was and still is considered very rare tea indeed.
Henrietta was told she was crazy and no one would drink it. Thank heavens they were wrong.
Today it is one of our best-selling teas across the globe and still the tea Henrietta starts each day with.
Prices have gone up with the popularity. We are a victim of our own success. The very best selection of the first tips have become extremely sort after.
Popularity has grown within China, too, and its harder and harder to get the very best. But here it is.
Find out the true cost behind tea, and how we aim to change the tea industry.
Let Henrietta guide you through the perfect way to make a cup of high quality loose leaf tea.
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