WHITE TEA - Bai Cha

What is white tea?

Like green tea, white tea comes from the millennia-old tea plant Camelia Sinensis, mostly from the cultivars Da Hao and Da Bai.

No other tea is as natural as the noble white tea.

The gentle production and its health benefits make Bai Cha, as it is called in China, a highly exclusive product.

White tea is also becoming increasingly popular in the Western world!

Today, in addition to the traditional growing areas of the Fu Ding Da Bai cultivar in the Chinese province of Fujian, one can also find white teas from other areas of China, such as Guanxi or Yunnan, and even from other countries, such as India and Vietnam.

What makes white tea so special?

When harvesting Bai Cha in March and April, only young, particularly beautiful and large leaf buds are picked. These delicate buds are still unopened and have a beautiful, silvery fluff.

The natural production of white tea:

As soon as the sun rises, the women head to the tea garden to pick the tender buds. One kilogram of the finest white tea in the world, Yin Zhen Silverneedle, requires 30,000 of these leaf buds.

The full bags are quickly brought to the station and spread out on large bamboo mats. There they are left to wilt and dry in the gentle spring sun for up to three days.