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2018 Spring Old Arbor Yue Guang Bai Tea Cake * 200 grams | Yunnan Sourcing Tea Shop

2018 Spring Old Arbor Yue Guang Bai Tea Cake * 200 grams

by Yi Shan Tea Factory
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$36.25 - $36.25
$36.25
$36.25 - $36.25
$36.25

Old arbor Jing Gu area camellia taliensis tea leaves were processed into this lovely lightly-wilted and then air-dried black/white tea and then pressed into these lovely 200 gram tea cakes.

Yue Guang Bai (Moonlight White) is a type of white tea that can also be processed more like a black tea (if allowed to wilt longer).  In the case of this Spring 2018 tea cake the processing allowed for more wilting giving the leaves a light brown color, and the tea soup a red color.  The taste is sugary and sweet with hints of flowers and lychee fruit.  If you smell the bottom of the cup or cha hai you may notice hints of red wine sweet and tannin smell!

Spring 2018 harvested tea

200 grams per cake, 5 cakes per tong

** picture of wrapper may differ slightly from actual wrapper!

Overall rating: 4.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.

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"In addition to the other reviews, which are spot on; I like to start brewing a chunk of this tea in my gaiwan without breaking it apart. Over the brews I pry open the leaves so a new part gets exposed to the water. This causes the white tea elements of the tea to last longer, while also developing the more black tea flavor"

— D H. (4/5)

Old Arbor Yue Guang Bai, 2018

"I find this White Tea to be really interesting. It is far more oxidized than most young white tea. If you brew it with cooler temperatures gonfu style, it is an interesting and perfectly fine floral dark-ish white tea with subtle hints of fruit. If you brew it with warmer water, either old man or western style, the black tea character comes to the fore, with the floral notes lending almost Oolong feel on top of the red tea character. It also has a pretty zippy head centered buzz when brewed in this manner."

— ellestad (4/5)

Durable, evolving white

"Cake is tight, but flakes nicely in layers, an intriguing blend of dark and light leaf. What the tea lacks in punch, it makes up for in evolving taste and liquor color which keeps things interesting. Moving from a light, sweet hay to having trace hints of cotton candy and mineral as the steeps become more copper in color, it is no stretch to get 1L of tea from about 6g of leaves. The tea is also tolerant of a variety of brewing parameters w/o showing astringency. Overall worthwhile as an easy, if slightly tame option to bolster your white rotation."

— Kelly S. (4/5)

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