2019 White Tea from Denong Tea

I was incredibly excited to see Denong come out with white tea. This tea is from their own tea gardens, I’m assuming puer material. At the 2019 PDX Tea Festival, I purchased a box of the 2019 White Tea without any hesitation. Leaf and Steeping Method Hands down, this Denong White tea is gorgeous looking with lots of fuzzy buds, looking moonlight white in style. Strangely, this tea smells just like my bunny Benson’s fur. When I got this tea it smelled strongly floral. I went with my usual white tea gongfu ratio of 1 gram of leaf per 20ml… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 Tiltshift White Tea from White2tea

Sadly, there weren’t many 2019 Tiltshift cakes to go around. I waited until White2Tea’s Black Friday sale to snag one. My interest in Tiltshift is that it is a Yueguangbai /moonlight white tea that is made with a high concentration of buds. If I recall correctly, White2tea said they simply didn’t have much of this tea to press. Leaf and Steeping Method I was not prepared for the WOW factor on this white tea cake. All these huge buds give Tiltshift a fuzzy silver appearance with traces of black. The compression on the cake wasn’t too bad as it has… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 White Crow Lincang White Tea from Bitterleaf Tea

Bitterleaf Tea’s 2019 White Crow is a shou mei grade white tea cake from Lincang Yunnan. I own the previous year’s 2018 White Crow and I was impressed with the value it offered, so I didn’t hesitate to order the newest cake. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaf has a strong weedy and honey scent. As with most of my white teas, I steeped White Crow with a ratio of 1 gram of leaf per 20 ml of vessel size, gongfu style. Steeped up, the leaf smells like honey and laundry drying outside on the clothesline. Tasting of Bitterleaf Tea’s… Continue reading, hoot!

Yi Shan Tea Factory 2018 Spring Old Arbor Yue Guang Bai White Tea via Yunnan Sourcing

I love a good Moonlight White / Yue Guang Bai white tea. Yunnan Sourcing’s Yi Shan Tea Factory 2018 Spring Old Arbor Yue Guang Bai is of unique interest as it has been left to wilt longer producing a darker white tea. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaf has a darker malty scent. The compression on this white tea cake was easy to break but you certainly need a tool to assist you. I used 1 gram of leaf per 20ml of vessel size, gongfu steeped in boiling water. The hot leaf smells like a malty black tea. Tasting of… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 September White2Tea Club

White2Tea club of September 2019 had an assortment of different teas – two black teas, a white tea, and an oolong processed into a black tea. Red Milan is available for purchase at White2Tea, whereas the rest are tea club exclusive. Red Milan Milan varietal dancongs seem a favorite of White2tea. This Red Milan, in particular, is a modern version from Guangdong processed as a black tea. Red Milan’s leaves are aromatic and smell like a grape juice box. I treated Red Milan as an oolong as I didn’t read up on the tea until I was editing my review.… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 Red Peony White Tea from Floating Leaves Tea

One of my favorite teas of all time is Floating Leaves Tea’s Red Peony, a Ruby 18 cultivar usually made into black tea, but made into white tea. I check out their Red Peony every year, deciding whether I will buy volume. If you want to compare, here is the 2016 Red Peony and 2017 Red Peony cake reviews. This year Floating Leaves Tea started a podcast, and we sampled the newest Red Peony together. Floating Leaves Tea podcast is available on all your podcast listening places as well as youtube.  After the podcast, I purchased an entire 5oz bag… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 August White2Tea Club Feat. 2014 Gongmei Brick and 2019 Dangerfield Sheng

If you are reading this review at release, yes this is the 2019 August White2Tea Club and it is November. I am catching up slowly. Generally, I drink these clubs in order, but August I did not. Upon hearing there was a 2014 Gongmei white tea sample in it, to be sold as a 500 gram brick, I drank it immediately in case I need to make use of the discount code with the added bonus there was a free shipping sale too. And guess what, I did make use of the discount code.   View this post on Instagram  … Continue reading, hoot!

Viridian Tea Company Fantasy Tea Blends

I encountered Viridian Tea Company while at World Tea Expo. The owner is also a Fantasy novel writer, and that excites me as I read all sorts of goth, vampire, time travel, fantasy romance stuff with a side obsession with Star Wars THRAWN. I had planned to read her books, but I am still going through the massive Black Dagger Brotherhood and this poor tea is still sitting here. Today I got Goth Librarian, The House of Byzantium Blend, Kel Nira Herbal Blend, and Harlem Muse Blend. Goth Librarian from Viridian Tea Company The ingredients in Goth Librarian is Assam tea, whole cloves, whole allspice.… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 Skinnydip White Tea from Bitterleaf Teas

2019 Skinnydip white tea is a 200 gram pressed cake with Simao material from Bitterleaf Teas. What attracted me to this white tea is the price, at this time, $14.50 for a 200 gram cake, so I couldn’t resist purchasing a cake. Skinnydip is flat out a budget tea for daily drinking or inexpensive aging. Leaf and Steeping Method Skinnydip has a strong scent of a sweet mowed lawn. The cake is a looser compression, making it easier to break off pieces, but also a bit messy as the leaf shatters. I used 1 gram of leaf per 20ml of… Continue reading, hoot!

2019 Colombian White Tea from Bitaco Colombian Tea

I had some amazing white tea from Bitaco, a tea grower in Colombia. I recall they had a silver needle last year, but this year certainly caught my attention as the taste of their latest white tea, a Baimudan/ White Peony grade, is outstanding. Bitaco regularly attends the Tea Convention circuit, and I’m finding every year their teas are getting better and better. Leaf and Steeping Method The leaf smells like under-ripe melons and linen. Gorgous looking leaf with the fuzzy silver buds mixed with a rainbow of red browns, greens, and dark leaves. My gongfu ratio is 1 gram… Continue reading, hoot!