Tiang Xiang Bai Mu Dan甜香白牡丹

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Pesticide-Free Garden
A tea with a sweet aroma of sweet potato and a smooth texture.
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Label color White tea

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How to Brew & Store This Tea

Pile of dry white tea leaves with silvery down on a white background

"Tian" (甜) means sweet flavor. We have aged the 2020 white tea for years in an oxygen-free environment, resulting in a unique sweet flavor.

The tea is made from one bud and one leaf harvested from natural tea gardens at an altitude of 2000m in Yunnan Province. By storing the 2019 white tea for several years, we have enhanced its sweet flavor through aging.

Aging Bai Mu Dan in Oxygen-Free Environment

In 2019, we produced more Bai Mu Dan than planned, so we decided to store part of the batch in an oxygen-free environment for several years instead of selling it as new tea.

Sweet Flavor Like Sweet Potatoes

Through aging, the tea has developed a sweet flavor reminiscent of sweet potatoes, chestnuts, and brown sugar.

If you drink this tea without prior knowledge, you might think it is a black tea rather than a white tea. Therefore, we highly recommend it to those who love black tea.

Due to its sweet flavor, it pairs well with sweets.

Brewed green-brown tea leaves on a white backgroundPale golden tea liquor in a white cup

Using Raw Materials Harvested from Naturally Grown Old Tea Trees

Like Bai Mu Dan, this tea is produced in a mountain village located in the southwestern part of Lincang City, Yunnan Province, about 50km from the Myanmar border.

View of hills with white flowering shrubs

In 2019, before the pandemic, I personally visited the site and oversaw the production of Bai Mu Dan.

Since the production method of white tea is simple, the quality of the raw tea leaves is directly reflected in the quality of the tea. Therefore, improving the quality of the raw tea leaves directly enhances the quality of white tea.

Tea leaves spread on a woven bamboo mat

Tian Xiang Bai Mu Dan uses raw materials harvested from tea gardens kept in wild over 2000m in altitude in a mountain village in Yunnan Province. Like fruits and vegetables, the higher the altitude, the better the quality. In this respect, the 2000m tea garden is ideal in terms of altitude.

In this area, the tea trees are not pruned to be low like in Japanese or Fujian tea gardens. Each tea tree is left to grow naturally, and some trees are as tall as the roof of a house.

A person among tea trees on a hillside

Old tea trees without fertilizers grow slowly, and because the number of leaves is small, the cell density is high, resulting in a soft taste and a rich aftertaste.

Best to Wait a Few Days After Opening Aged Tea

Like wine, aged tea develops better flavor if you wait a few days (at least one day) after opening it before drinking. Enjoy the evolving aroma over time after opening the package.

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About this tea

Origin
South-western Lincang, Yunnan, China (about 50 km from the Myanmar border)
Altitude
2000m
Cultivation
Pesticide-free, unfertilised and unpruned; natural tree form (tall-tree form); natural farming
Cultivar
Grown from seed
Plucking
Hand-plucked
Harvest season
First spring flush
Harvest year
2019
Processing
Natural withering with no heat at all
Sourcing
We stay at origin for nearly two months throughout the spring tea season and manage everything on site, from selecting the tea gardens and raw leaf to processing and logistics

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