Sanxia White Tea from Mountain Stream Teas

Sanxia White Tea

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
White Tea Leaves
Flavors
Baby Powder, Creamy, Fennel, Floral, Gardenias, Grapefruit, Hay, Herbaceous, Herbs, Malt, Mint, Beeswax, Citrusy, Cream, Drying, Earth, Flowers, Ginger, Grass, Honey, Lemon, Lemon Zest, Lychee, Metallic, Mineral, Oats, Orange, Orange Zest, Osmanthus, Rose, Rosehips, Salt, Smooth, Spearmint, Tangy, Wheat
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Certification
Organic
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  • “2023 harvest. Sitting down with a plan to session this and its aged counterpart afterward. Minty floral and fruit on the dry leaf; I neglected to warm my pot, so no notes there. I found baby powder...” Read full tasting note
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  • “I wish I had bought a larger package of this winter 2020 harvest Taiwanese white tea so I could have more to play around with. It takes boiling water with no issue whatsoever. The liquor is a bit...” Read full tasting note

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Hand-pinched from a heritage variety cultivar named Qin Xin Gan Zhong, this tea is rare, delicate and smooth. The cultivar’s name has a character for a kind of fragrant orange included in it and that flavor is on full display in this tea. The first steeps are classic sweet and subtle white before opening up in later steeps to a flavor note somewhere around the meeting point of ginger and orange. Gentle, smooth and golden, this white tea is sure to become the favorite of many.

Produced at a partner farm only 20 minutes from downtown Taipei in one of the oldest tea growing areas of Taiwan, the tea is made in the traditional way by a tea master in his 80s. Each leaf is plucked by hand (no finger blades are even used!) and each batch of tea is tiny. This style of tea production is extremely rare and we are happy to support farmers still making tea in this old, delicate style.

Produced at the same garden as our Sanxia Black and Sanxia Green Teas. You can try them all together here.

Elevation: 400m

Status: Organic Certified

Cultivar: Qingxin Gan Zhong

Season: Spring 2019

Method: Hand picked, processed on site, very small batch

Oxidization: 100%

Region: Sanxia, New Taipei City

Recommend Brewing Style:

Gong Fu Style: 5g per 100ml, ~95C(205f) water, 30, 45, 60 then add 5-10 seconds steeps in gaiwan. Lasts 3-4 steeps.

Western Style: 5g per 100ml, ~95C(205f) water for 1-2 minute. Lasts 2-3 steeps

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2023 harvest. Sitting down with a plan to session this and its aged counterpart afterward.

Minty floral and fruit on the dry leaf; I neglected to warm my pot, so no notes there.

I found baby powder and… the… is that… cat pee(?) from the drydown on the lid of my pot. Like a wet baby diaper, kinda, actually. Not offensive, just there. Wet leaf is super floral and herbaceous… gardenia/mint/fennel/vegetal. I’d drink that cocktail. Linalool, creaminess, cooling, herbs, hay, citrus rind (grapefruit?), malt, and tannins on and in the liquor. Not a flavor profile I’d crave, but fun as a tasting and exploration experience. And, I’d say — a nice example of a classic white tea. I don’t often think about teas in terms of what’s missing, but a touch of melon sweetness would really elevate this.

Flavors: Baby Powder, Creamy, Fennel, Floral, Gardenias, Grapefruit, Hay, Herbaceous, Herbs, Malt, Mint

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ashmanra
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Pee sometimes smells like Cheerios to me, so could it possibly be an oat-y scent?

beerandbeancurd
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Possible… though I can’t say I’ve ever equated the two! :D

derk
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haha I get it

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I wish I had bought a larger package of this winter 2020 harvest Taiwanese white tea so I could have more to play around with. It takes boiling water with no issue whatsoever. The liquor is a bit drying and the flavor a little lacking early, with watery notes of hay, oats, orange, ginger, beeswax, canned lychee syrup. Longer, hotter steeps develop more juiciness and creamy-smooth heft, while a deep orange character comes to the fore. Is this similar to what white tea stuffed mandarins taste like? Check out the wet leaves: they’re pretty small, rounded and many with blunted tips.

I want to boil this tea so bad. And grandpa it. And brew a big pot of it.

Flavors: Beeswax, Citrusy, Cream, Creamy, Drying, Earth, Flowers, Ginger, Grass, Hay, Honey, Lemon, Lemon Zest, Lychee, Malt, Metallic, Mineral, Oats, Orange, Orange Zest, Osmanthus, Rose, Rosehips, Salt, Smooth, Spearmint, Tangy, Wheat

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Tiffany :)
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Oooh this tea sounds very nice! :D

derk
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Longer steeps tastes a lot like a dongfang meiren aka Oriental Beauty.

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