Silver Needle Experience - TASTING A FLIGHT OF WHITE TEA

[@stevenleemother]

Hooray! I just got mine in the mail *yesterday* ! Life IS good. Drinking along in 3, 2,

[@jfletcher7160]

Love the midweek vids, even with a baby on the way, you guys still manage to entertain us.

[@adamsvetlik6636]

I love the Guangxi Silver Needle, excellent tea!

[@jcheero84]

Ahhhh!! I'm doing the White Peony flight box at the moment!!😍😍 I did the Silver Needle flight box last week. I must say that Guangxi Silver Needle is beautiful!! But they were all amazing!

[@Koato]

I hope there are still each of a couple flight boxes left when I am able to afford them!

[@woody3307]

Bai Hao Yin Zhen is my favorite tea for my two hour Sunday tea meditation. The effects must be experienced, and it keeps giving more infusions!

[@umiteasets]

When brewed it, it give a very pale, champagne-coloured liquor that has a very light, soft, sweet, velvety flavour.

[@joetexas1546]

When is the Next Session? After the Baby!?

[@MeiLeaf]

Yes I think it has to be - sorry we have been so busy with everything.

[@davanzo305]

One other question regarding white tea, while I’m here, if you don’t mind: when a white tea is aged, whether it’s an all bud varietal like Silver Needle or a bud and leaf varietal like Bai Mu Dan, or even a more leaf heavy one like Shou Mei, does the aging consist of any fermentation “proper” at all? Like do any of the microbial organisms that develop the tea in Puerh also activate in aged white tea, or is all of the aging in white tea through oxidation, such as the aging in oolong tea, if I’m even correct that oolong aging is through oxidation, which I assumed because oolong is kept airtight generally when aged, while Puerh is left so that air can circulate and promote the microbial fermentation slowly over time. This question is very important to me, and I haven’t had anyone who’s able to answer it, so please, whatever you know would be greatly appreciated. I have to say, I’m quite enjoying your videos, and feel privileged to be a part of the true tea head community. Congratulations on your impending fatherhood, all the best wishes!

[@Freerider1703]

just bought a silver needle white tea from yunnan at my local tea shop in germany. never had white tea before, breathtaking but still curious who the tea tastes that you praised so much in you documentary

[@chrisladouceur4093]

Got mine already. Will be going through soon!

[@MarinaC2112]

This video is the perfect opportunity to procrastinate at work 😂 since it’s too late for tea right now

[@coreywarrington7035]

Implying 'too late for tea' is a valid phrase! It's never too late for tea!

[@MarinaC2112]

@@coreywarrington7035 unfortunately if i drink tea after 21:00 i can't sleep

[@joetexas1546]

Marina Chertok I try to limit my puerh drinking after about three o'clock or so and other teas by around 5.

[@LauraAusberg]

Dear MeiLeaf-Team, did you order a Guangxi Silver Needle in 2020? I really loved it Last year. Thanks for all the videos. There is always something new for me to learn 😊

[@burnsr77]

I'll tell my kids to find a partner that looks at them the way Don looks at that 10-year silver needle

[@Lau_rao]

😍 I'm sure I would love all the new teas coming but I can't buy any so thanks to your videos I can taste them in a way... 😅

[@davanzo305]

Don, is the difference in size of the buds possibly have to do with Yunnan having mostly Assamica varietal tea plants, so are the silver needle buds from Yunnan possibly Assamica, while the buds from Fuding are Sinensis? I have no knowledge of which tea plants grow in Guangxi, but I was always under the impression that the only Assamica plants in China were in Yunnan, please let me know what you think about this, and if you know anything about Assamica outside of Yunnan, other than India of course!

[@ponytheprostituteonvinyl7591]

美味しいそうね！

[@marie-evecanuel4214]

can someone describe marsy pan (dont know how to write it) and poppy seeds to me?

[@ossy43]

How do you age white tea? Does it have to be on a cake?....we need a video about it...

[@FredrikSkievan]

do you have a video on how to brew herbal tea? tea's like chamomile and such?

[@helensoderlind9184]

I would also like to see this

[@ossy43]

The best of the whole box: '09 Fuding Yin zhen!!... Guangxi wet leaf smells like butter but has no taste, same as Yunnan, Yunnan doesn't even has a smell. Heirloom Silver needle (more expensive than Jin Jun Mai) was my greatest disappointment !! Almost no smell when wet and tasted like lawn grass!!. '09 Fuding Yin Zhen tasted and smelled really nice....

[@GameraS2K]

My girlfriend had the same reaction to Guangxi. It's a very light note, and she prefers strong black teas. People like me LOVE the Guangxi white tea for its floral beauty. It tasted exactly like honeysuckle for me, but I enjoy lighter teas