One-year tea, three-year medicine, and seven-year treasure
White Peony Bai Mu Dan Old White Tea
Storage and medicinal value of white peony – “one-year tea, three-year medicine, and seven-year treasure”
When talking about Fuding White Tea, people always mention about the aged White Tea and how to age it. In Fuding, there is a saying about the aged white tea going like this ” One year Tea, three year medicine, seven year treasure”. (In Chinese:一年茶,三年藥,七年寳). Tea is rich in amino acids, tea polyphenols, minerals, multivitamins, zinc, selenium and other trace elements needed by the human body. There is some researches found that Fuding White Tea is special in its medicinal value, the more year it was aged, the more medicinal benefit it can bring. As a Tea sommelier, despite all that findings about the medicinal value of aged white tea, it is more about the taste dimension to us.
In this selection of aged Bai Mu Dan white tea, you can choose between the options of Year 2018/ 2020/ 2021/ 2022, and see the transformation of the aging white tea! After years of storage, the inner quality of the white peony is undergoing beautiful changes through years of storage. Each year reveals a unique transformation, the tasting note of different year’s tea is very diverse and delicious. For lightly aged Bai Mu Dan, it is relatively softer in its mouthfeel, it become sweet and smooth, yet a little bit of refreshing floral, fruity and honey notes can be found. And for Bai Mu Dan aged for longer years, It become rich and full in its mouthfeel, the more age it get, the sweeter it become. Aged White Tea is usually having layered sweetness, mixed with honey, jujube, woodsy and sometimes even herbaceous or Chinese medicine notes.
Weight per Pack: 50g
Tea Farm Location: Organic Tea Farm at Dian Tou Town, Fuding, Fujian Province, China
Harvest Time: Spring 2022/ Spring 2021 / Spring 2020/ Spring 2018
Tasting Notes: smooth, mellow, mixed with honey, jujube, woodsy and sometimes even herbaceous or Chinese medicine notes
Tea Liquor Colour: bright and clear yellow/orange colour