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Fuding Shou Mei White Tea Cake 2016
Sweet and soft with thick texture
Sweet and soft with thick texture
Origin: |
Bailin Town, Fuding City, Fujian Province, China |
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Harvest Date: |
May 2, 2016 |
Production Date: |
Feb. 14, 2018 |
Net Weight: |
350g |
Dry Leaf: |
Evenly compressed into a spherical cake shape, green and brown in color with a few tea stems |
Aroma: |
Herb and woody aroma with slight medicinal aroma |
Liquor: |
Bright yellow |
Taste: |
Sweet at the entrance, the liquid is soft and smooth with thick texture |
Tea Bush: |
Fuding Dabaihao |
Tea Garden: |
Chaitou Shan Tea Garden |
Caffeine: |
Low caffeine (less than 10% of a cup of coffee) |
Storage: |
Store in cool, dry place away from sunlight; keep ventilated |
Shelf Life: |
The aged the better |
Angel's Comment:
Mellow and sweet, the tea liquid has a special gummy texture.
There is an old saying about Fuding white tea: “one-year tea, three-year medicine, seven-year treasure”. The leaves for this shou mei cake were harvested in 2016 and pressed into a cake in 2018; following several years of aging, the aroma, taste, and essential quality of this tea are continually changing. Because this cake is older than our 2018 shou mei, it has more of a light medicinal fragrance rather than the 2018’s bright pekoe.
The first sensation upon tasting this tea is the sweetness of the liquid, which follows through into the aftertaste. The tea leaves spread and expand throughout subsequent steeps and pour more of their essential substances into the liquid, resulting in a mellower brew later on - but even as the flavor fades, that sweetness remains until the end.
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Cup Method |
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Chinese Gongfu Method |
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Teacup: 12oz / 355ml | ![]() |
Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml |
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203℉ / 95℃ | ![]() |
203℉ / 95℃ |
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5g Tea | ![]() |
5g Tea |
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Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins | ![]() |
10 steeps: rinse, 30s, 45s, 60s, 80s, 100s, 120s, 150s, 200s, 250s, 300s |
Rinse time is around 5 seconds |
Chaitou Shan Tea Garden is located in Fuding, which is known as the hometown of white tea. The plantation is almost always blanketed with fog, providing the perfect conditions for the tea bushes to accumulate a wide variety of microminerals and nutrients. The soil here is rich red and yellow in color, signifying an abundance of important organic material. The tea species mainly grown here is the Fuding Dabaihao variety.

As we all know, the world’s white tea is in China, and Chinese white tea is in Fuding. Mr. Chen was born in Fuding, Fujian Province. He has been influenced by tea since he was a child. It seems that he came with the mission of inheriting white tea culture from the moment he was born. He has been engaged in tea cultivation and production for more than 30 years, and has always adhered to the principle of "quality first" for many years. He is not only a successful tea industry operator, but also an excellent inheritor of white tea culture, allowing more people to taste and understand Fuding white tea.
This shou mei cake was produced in Fuding, a famous center of tea production located in northeastern Fujian Province. This area is of the subtropical monsoon climate characteristic of coastal areas, with an average annual temperature of 18.5C and rainfall of around 1661mm.
This cake is made of the leaves of the Fuding Dabaihao plant, called Dahao for short. It is a small tree that propagates asexually.
In 1985, Dahao was certified as a national variety of tea plant. It grows up to 2.8m tall with a thick trunk. The tea from the spring leaves of the bush contains 1.8% amino acids and 28.2% tea polyphenols, which marks it as a high-quality base for making white tea in particular.
Tea has been grown in Fujian for centuries as an ever-important staple of commerce and trade throughout ancient China. Originally, the process of drying the leaves was followed by a variation of hot-air drying and sun-drying, a meticulous step intended to remove excess water from the leaves to ease the preservation process and preserve the tea for sale.