Fuding white tea is categorized into four grades: White Hair Silver Needle, White Peony, Gong Mei and Shou Mei.
1, White Hair Silver Needle
White Hair Silver Needle is the most tender Fuding White Tea, with single buds of Dabai Tea or Narcissus Tea as the raw material, and the dry tea buds are strong and strong, with fine velvet hairs on the leaf surface, white like silver, and the leaf body is straight and sharp like needles, with strong fragrance, apricot yellow soup color, and a fresh and sweet taste.
2. White Peony
White Peony is slightly coarser and older than White Hair Silver Needle. It is made from one bud and one leaf or two leaves of Dabai Tea or Shuixian Tea species, with mossy color, dense velvet hairs on the back of the leaves, and red veins, and after brewing, it has distinctive hair aroma and mellow taste without bitter and astringent taste and greenish gas.
3, Gongmei
Gongmei raw materials are more special, the use of groups of species of tea tree shoots as raw materials, after a special process made of white tea, dry tea is more skinny, shaped like eyebrows, more than a bud of two or three leaves is mainly, the color of the soup is orange-yellow, mellow and fresh flavor, taste fresh and pure.
4, Shou Mei
Shou Mei is the leaf quality of the most coarse old white tea, large white tea, Narcissus tea tree species, groups of species of a bud of four leaves of raw materials can be, but is also the most suitable for long term storage of white tea in the aging of the tea, aged tea fragrance and elegant, Chen Xiang condensing rhyme, the mouth mellow, taste full and warm.
Fuding white tea purchase method
1, observe the shape: the shape of good Fuding white tea should be even, tight, when you buy, you can observe the shape of the tea to determine whether it is good. The buds of Fuding white tea are covered with white tea hairs, and the more fluffy the tea is, the better the quality of the white tea is.
2, smell aroma: good Fuding white tea aroma is strong and persistent, when you buy can be smelled to determine whether the aroma of the tea is sufficient.
3, taste taste: good Fuding white tea taste fresh and mellow, tea color golden, when shopping can be tasted to determine whether the tea quality. Old white tea in the aging process, the milli will be transformed into silver gray, leaf transformation will be brown, yellow. The real white tea taste smooth, sweetness is enough, the bottom of the cup aroma.