On the palate, White Hair Silver Needle tea color is bright apricot yellow, the fragrance of the hair is strong, the tea aroma is sweet and long, the entrance is sweet and fresh, refreshing. The leaf buds in the cup are erect, moist and pleasant.
Historical origin of Baihao Silver Needle
In the first year of Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (1796 AD), Fuding created Baihao Silver Needle by using the strong buds of Vegetable Tea (sexual group) as the raw material. 1857, Fuding, with the help of the unique geography, climate, soil conditions and special processing technology in the Taimushan Mountain area, bred Fuding Dabai and Fuding Dahao. Fuding Dabai and Fuding Dahao. During the Qing Dynasty, the production was extremely low, with only more than 1,000 quintals a year.
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The "Noble Tea" of the Qing Dynasty
Such a precious white hair silver needle, in addition to tribute to the officials around the world and far away from the capital of the emperor's aristocracy, the rest of the almost exported to foreign countries, the vast majority of the flow of Europe. The white silver needle was initially known to the European market on the back of black tea. After that, White Peony and other popular white teas were developed one after another, but the production of white tea was still small, so it has been exported as a special tea for more than a hundred years.
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For the European aristocracy, not many people drank White Hair Silver Needle. Aristocrats drink more black tea, only in the guests when the tea, in order to show their aristocratic temperament can afford to drink expensive tea, will deliberately add a little bit of white hair silver needle in black tea.
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Overseas with ten thousand gold to buy white silver needle of the rich and powerful said: Queen Elizabeth of England on white silver needle has a fondness for. This tea is specially designated to be drunk.
The production is extremely rare
White tea is divided into white bud tea (White Hair Silver Needle) and white leaf tea (White Peony, New Craft White Tea, Gongmei Shoumei) because of the different picking standards; among them, White Hair Silver Needle is the most popular.
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White Hair Silver Needle can only be picked once a year in the spring, due to the tea buds are very small, so the first picking White Hair 1 tea tree can only be picked more than 10 single buds, coupled with the ruggedness of the tea mountain, even if it is an experienced tea picker, each person picking 2-3 pounds of buds per day. It takes more than 3,000 clusters of tea trees and more than 30,000 buds to pick 5 pounds of buds. The production is scarce and the price is extremely expensive.