- Harvest: Spring 2023
- Oxidation: Unoxidized
- Production: Sun Dried and Hot Air Dried
- Farming: Traditional Farming
The "King's Grade" refers to White Peony made from the original mother bushes, or the best grade of the season. This is a limited crop production. Grown at 1000 meters, these are some of the original White tea bushes indigenous to the area. Very fresh, full-bodied white tea, with pervasive bursts of fruit. Of all the white teas, White Peony King offers the fullest flavor. Traditionally grown, harvested, and processed by sun drying and hot air indoor drying.
Our White Tea is from Fuding福鼎 Fujian, China, an excellent environment for growing white tea.
The founder, Mr. Lin Chui Jiao, began to plant and trade white tea in1957. The son, Mr. Lin Xing Biao, is our tea farmer and he inherited the family's traditional white tea planting and processing techniques. This tea farm and factory adheres to sound ecological practices and techniques that produce the highest quality teas.
Lin Xing Biao is highly regarded as a pioneer in the area not just as a farmer, but because he helped many people create a better economic condition through the growing and processing of tea and he owns one of the earliest tea factories producing white tea in China as a non-government factory. The tea factory covers an area of about 16,000 square meters and he has more than 300 employees.
Steeping Guidelines:
- 5g or 3Tbsp | 8oz. @ 195˚F | 45 sec.
- May be re-steeped multiple times
- Use a glass or porcelain teapot.
- Drain completely and serve.
Tasting Notes (5/27/2021): Very light, coral peachy color. A dried yellow peach fruitiness is complemented by the crisp mouth feel, notes of golden apple skin and rounded out by a very subtle peach bark note. Bright and clean.
Tasting Notes (Spring 2020 Harvest): Very fresh, instantly refreshing. Very subtle notes of cantaloupe and white peach. Fantastic!
