A special edition Silver Needle cake from Master Mei Xiangjing using 2018 Maocha as base.
Baihao Silver Needle is also known as Pekoe. Because most of the finished products are buds, the whole body is covered with pekoe, the dry leaf color is as white as silver, and the shape is slender like a needle, so it is named elegantly. Pekoe tea is the best among the pure white tea varieties. It is has been a tribute to the royal family in all dynasties.
The finished tea buds of Yinzhen are fat and strong, covered with white hairs, bright white in color, sparkling like silver, long and straight, like edges like needles, the soup color is clear and bright, light apricot yellow, the mouth fragrance is revealed, and the taste is fresh.
Master Mei is the representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project 'Fuding White Tea Making Skills'. He is the grandson of Mei Bozhen, a famous tea merchant in the late Qing Dynasty.
Good white tea, seven-point drying, three-point roasting, drying, withering, and braised roasting. The traditional craftsmanship of Fuding white tea is simple and subtle. Master Mei Xiangjing has inherited the family's ancestral business, and guards and develops this traditional skill from the simplest to the most complex with the pure and dedicated craftsman spirit.
The mellow taste of white tea that haunted the tongue since childhood has given Master Mei Xiangjing the unchanging "first heart of a leaf" for more than half a century.
