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Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea

Fragrant and sweet, a nice daily drinking

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Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea

Fragrant and sweet, a nice daily drinking

Rating:
92% of 100
Categories:
TeaWhite
Summary
Origin:

Dieshi Town, Fuding City, Fujian Province, China

Harvest Date:

August 20, 2018

Production Date:

July 20, 2020

Net Weight:

About 5g per ball

Plucking Standard:

One bud with three or four leaves and few four opened leaves

Dry Leaf:  

The tea leaves are made into tight balls, gray-brown in color with a small amount of white pekoe

Aroma: 

Pekoe aroma, slight jujube fragrance

Liquor: 

Bright and clear yellow

Taste: 

Soft and smooth, with obvious sweet and jujube fragrance

Tea Bush:

Fuding Dabaihao

Tea Garden:

Jiaoyang 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:

TeaVivre's dragon ball white tea is made of Fuding tea species, the liquid changes from light to deep, and the taste is sweet, with lingering fragrance in the cup.

This Fuding Shou Mei Dragon Ball White Tea is harvested in 2018, and shaped into dragon balls in 2020. Each ball is individually packed and weights about 5g, which is very convenient to brew, store and carry out. It has obvious sweet and jujube aroma, tastes soft and smooth. Besides, it can brew many steeps and also very suitable for boiling. Two-year of aging has given it a mellow mouthfeel; we believe that it will get better and better along with years.

Recommend Brewing Method

Cup Method

Chinese Gongfu Method

Teacup: 12oz / 355ml Gaiwan: 3.8oz / 110ml
203℉ / 95℃ 203℉ / 95℃
1 tea ball 1 tea ball
Brewing time: 5 - 8 mins 8 steeps: rinse, 30s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 100s, 120s, 150s
      Rinse time is around 5 seconds
Tea Garden

Jiayang Tea Garden is located in Fuding, which is the "green source" of Fuding's mother river, Tongshan Creek. The environment here is beautiful, surrounded by mountains and rich in vegetation, 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.

tea garden

tea garden

tea garden

Origin

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.

Map of Fuding, Fujian

Tea Bush

This cake is made of the leaves of the Fuding Dabaihao plant, called Dahao for short. It is a small tree that propagates asexually.

Fuding Da Hao Tea Tree

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.

History

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. The leaves of tea dried in this way were often compared to the eyebrows of Shouxing, the longest-living man in mythology. It is from this myth that Shou Mei earned its name, from the Chinese for “long curved eyebrow”, 眉毛, or ‘meimao’.

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