China White High Mountain Bai Mu Dan Tea cake
£20.00
This China White High Mountain Bai Mu Dan tea cake has been compressed in order for ease of storage and also to allow aging, which gives the tea a new flavour profile. From the Fuding area of the Fujian Province, this tea is withered in the traditional white tea process way, and then compressed into 100g tea “cakes”. This tea can be infused multiple times, releasing a very sweet, summer hay taste and aroma. The first infusion should been done using water at a temperature of around 70 to 80 degrees Celsius with increased steeping or higher water temps following.
Comes as a 100 gram compressed cake or bing
52 in stock
2 reviews for China White High Mountain Bai Mu Dan Tea cake
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kareem.ghan –
Such a refreshing, fruity and slightly floral white tea with fresh green notes and a nice thick texture. Holds many infusions and has a nice mellow body feeling to it.
Ulla Conrad –
The label of this cake “High Mountain White Peony Cake, 100 gr” has beautiful golden specks of colour, the white wrapping has fibers woven into it. The scent of it is like a meadow, where the hay is lying, cut, on top of the ground, wet. Big, furry leaves and buds, woven together in an organic pattern, with colour hues ranging from dark brown, over dark green, to light off-white and grey. The cake seems light, and tapping with my fingers, it sounds hollow. The leaves are lying in layers, so I break of a part of the upper layer, it comes off in a moon shaped oval. Whole leaves, both green and white, fall off. It is like collecting leaves in the forrest underwood… pure nature.
The big leaves stick out of the gaiwan. I am pouring water. Brewing the 1. brew for 30 sec. Smelling the wet leaves, I get more hay, but I also go back to a norwegian summerhouse and its dark red shed, where we as children sat and waited for the mice to come out – I think they stored hay on the upper floor. But now I also smell underwood, wet earth, and forrest.
The tea colour is golden yellow. A surprising thick mouthfeel hits me, golden thick drops, sweet, round, hay, SUN. It is like drinking sun. After the reading about the tea, then observing, watching, and smelling, right NOW it becomes a body sensation. Now I am drinking, now the tea is my body, it becomes me. And it is starting to warm my whole body. I awake. Every cell in my body awakes. The mind stops, giving way to a feeling from inside, and an awareness, a calmness, that wasn´t there before. Such a mild tea – but what a rich tea, heavy tea, awakening the body like this. And maybe even – the soul.
While brewing again, and waiting, there is a quietness – like listening to the tea brewing. This 2. brew, after 35 seconds, is more orange in colour. The taste deeper, more fruity, HAY – just a little less round. The water getting closer to the cores of the leaves. I earlier had the thought, tastewise, of “books”, in a good way. The taste of golden books…
3. brew, 1 min. Tea is now golden orange. I feels like I am grounded by a golden lake now, I feel warm, round, calm, happy. I breath in, and my whole body breathes.
I have been reading about Christopher Marlowe, and to conclude with his words: “With mouth of gold, and morning in his eyes.”
Tea greetings, Ulla