Livio /1/03


> "Lewis Perin" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> news
>> "Livio Zanini" > writes:
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>>> "Lewis Perin" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>> news >>>>
>>>> [...misconceptions in white tea article...]
>>>
>>> Lew: I found out that also Shuixian bud and leaves can by processed in
> white
>>> tea
>>
>> Well, why not? With all the interest in white tea these days, I would
>> imagine we'll be seeing white teas made from all sorts of cultivars
>> before long. There's been white tea from Darjeeling for a year or
>> two, for example.
>
> I think that not all cultivars are suitable to make baihao yinzhen, since
> you can you use only those with very fleshy and hairy buds.
> L
>
>

Livio,

I realize that mine are superficial observations, hardly botanically sound,
but I have drunk a "white" silver needle pu-erh which looked to be from a
leaf of a yinzhen type. Likewise, I've drunk a "white" Ceylon tea that
looked nearly the same. I've heard that tea garden men in Darjeeling are
using the Chinese "white tea" cultivar to produce their white teas -- most
of them, I think are in the bai mudan class. I've drunk one of those also
and it looked to be just like classsical bai mudans. So, based on this
"evidence" -- I put the word in quotes -- I got the feeling that there might
be a "white cultivar".

Best,
Michael