Specification

Origin

This Gongmei white tea cake is using one bud and two leaves or three leaves with petiole as raw material, is harvested in the spring of 2015 year, comes from the Panxi Town, Fuding City, the hometown of Chinese White Tea.

Panxi is regarded as an ecological town due to its 88% forest coverage rate and 96% greening rate. It has a mild climate and abundant rainfall. The soil is mainly yellow-red gravel soil with high organic matter and mineral content, which is very suitable for the growth of tea trees.

What is more, the significant temperature difference between day and night here also be very beneficial to the growth and the accumulation of nutrients of white tea. For example, Glutamic acid and aspartic acid, which make up the fresh flavor of white tea, are found to be higher in high altitude areas, and Phenylalanine, which imparts white tea’s sweetness, also be increases with altitude.

Appearance & Taste

This Gongmei tea is absolutely sun-exposed white tea. The leaves and buds neither have been dried in special ovens, nor have been subjected to heat treatment. Instead, they are withered and dried in the sun, have a brown tint, giving the tea a delicate and persistent pleasant aroma.

This Gongmei tea is compressed into a cake, make it can be stored for a longer time and useful for aging. The fresh Gongmei tea infusion shows apricot with a pleasant and mild taste. By the aging time growth, the tea soup will turn to orange or dark yellow, and the taste becomes mellow with a sweet aftertaste.

As this white tea has already aged for several years, we highly recommended to enjoy it by cooking or steaming. After cooked, the tea nutrients and flavors be released maximumly, you will not only enjoy a mellow sweet white tea with jujube aroma, but also have a health and relax tea life.

Aging

In China, there is a popular Chinese saying reflects the importance of the aging on the white tea. It is “一年茶，三年藏，七年宝”. That is, one year after white tea is made, it is just ordinary white tea; when it is more than three years old, it has good health care effects. The health care effects value and tea content of the tea leaves will gradually increase with a longer storage time. Once the white tea is seven years old or more, it is taken as a treasure.

Thanks for the medicinal and collection values of white tea, they make more and more people love to drink and collect white tea, and take it as a great and wonderful gift to their friends, family and clients.

Brewing Guide

By Gaiwan

1. Pour the boiled water into the Gaiwan, fair cup, teacups to warm them up;

2. After 10-20 seconds, pour off hot water when they are warmed up;

3. Place 5~8g White Tea into the Gaiwan;

4. Pour in about 90℃ hot water;

5. After 10 seconds, pour the tea soup into fair cup;

6. Average the tea soup from fair cup into each teacup;

7. Enjoy your tea.

By Stewing---specially for the aged white tea over 3 years

1. Prepare a glass stewing teapot and an electronic heater;

2. Pour 5g~8g aged white tea with aged dried tangerine peel if you like;

3. Pour boiled water at 1/3 of the teapot;

4. Power on the heater to boil the water again;

5. During the stewing, you will find the color of the tea soup changes from light yellow to orange, to dark red;

6. When the water is boiled, turn down the power supply, pour out the tea soup to fair cup or teacup, and leave 1/3 of the soup;

7. Add some more boiled water for continue cooking;

White tea, especially the aged white tea can be brewed or stewed for many times till it is tasteless.

Taste your tea after the recommended steeping time and then decide if you’d like it to steep a little longer.

Your own preference is the standard only.

Package

350g/cake, 5cakes/box, 4boxes/Carton

 Storage

1. Keep out of the Sun

If white tea is directly exposed to sunlight, the substances contained in the leaves will start to decompose, reducing the nutritional value and affecting the taste of the tea.

2. Keep dry and tightly sealed

If to let the white tea under a wet environment for a long time, it will easy to get mold and develop a so-called "plum aroma." To prevent the tea turning bad or going mouldy, humidity should be avoided. Therefore, use containers with good breathability, such as sand pots. Ceramic pots, which can absorb water vapour in the air, should be avoided. In order to avoid the effects of wet weather, it is recommended not to stack containers up against walls or directly on the ground.

3. Store at room temperature.

As a slight-fermented tea, white tea is sensitive to the temperature. Too cold will affect the enzyme activity and make the aging slow down. Thus, white tea does not need to be refrigerated –the temperature can range from 0 to 30°C. However, significant changes in temperature should be avoided too.

4. Avoid storing it among things with mussy odours.

Tea can absorb different sorts of odour extremely easily; therefore, it should not be stored alongside anything strong-smelling.

5. Store different types of teas separately.

Such as white tea should be stored separately with pu’er tea.