Bai Mu Dan takes the bud along with the first two leaves, and that extra leaf is what fills out the cup. It keeps the clean, unforced sweetness white tea is loved for but adds hay, dried flowers and a faint apricot note that Silver Needle does not have. Because it costs a fraction as much, it is the white tea worth drinking daily rather than saving for occasions. Eighty-five degrees and four minutes, and it takes a second and third steep happily.
Only unopened buds, each one covered in silver down. Exceptionally delicate, with melon and honey. The most prestigious white tea China makes.
Picked late from larger leaf, the fullest of the Fujian whites. Hay and dried date, with real body behind them. Gentle enough to drink without watching the clock.
More bud than Shou Mei, less than White Peony. That lands it somewhere soft and honeyed. It ages well if you keep it dry.
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