White Tea (2018)

Tea type
White Tea
Ingredients
White Tea Leaves
Flavors
Autumn Leaf Pile, Cedar, Floral, Honeysuckle, Peony, Smoke, Smooth, Toasty, Fruity, Hay, Mineral, Stonefruit, Wood, Apricot, Campfire, Cream, Flowers, Limestone, Meat, Mushrooms, Nectar, Pine, Roasted Nuts, Creamy, Dried Fruit, Fireplace, Forest Floor, Petrichor, Wet Rocks
Sold in
Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Not available
Certification
Organic
Edit tea info Last updated by eastkyteaguy
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 0 min, 45 sec 5 g 4 oz / 120 ml

Currently unavailable

We don't know when or if this item will be available.

From Our Community

9 Images

3 Want it Want it

0 Own it Own it

8 Tasting Notes View all

From Old Ways Tea

Sun dried white tea. Slightly fresh on the throat and nose with a good fragrance. If you are familiar with our black teas and like white tea this could be a good choice. This white tea is fairly smooth and the sweetness hits early.

The 2016 harvest was the last offered. This 2018 white tea is from the same farm and was produced by the same tea master. If you are familiar with the previous tea, I would like to point out a couple changes this year. The number of stems was increased as well as the package size. Previously sold as 6g, this year is about 7.5g.

This tea is certified organic by the Chinese standards.

About Old Ways Tea View company

Company description not available.

8 Tasting Notes

1704 tasting notes

Thank you so much, Derk!

This is one of the teas I hesitate with whenever I want to try it. Opening it up, and using about half of the sample to maybe 3-5 grams, smoke and pine qualities come from the bag. Reminds me of a Lapsang as expected, but softer.

Brewing it up gong fu and in shorter 20 second incremented brews, smoke was prominent in the first one. Cedar came to mind in every brew for me, and the leading floral that contrasted with the autumn qualities was honeysuckle and usual white tea peony. Later steeps got sweeter and more floral.

I enjoyed the complexity of this one. I wouldn’t want to have it as a staple, but my inner tea nerd is happy. Funny enough, my mom is going to Ohio and my girlfriend is coming back from Ohio, so it’s serendipitous I drank this one.

Flavors: Autumn Leaf Pile, Cedar, Floral, Honeysuckle, Peony, Smoke, Smooth, Toasty

derk

You’re welcome :) I really enjoy this tea’s soft, smoked Lapsang-like character as a departure from pretty much all other white teas.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

83
4170 tasting notes

Mastress Alita’s sipdown challenge Saturday, October 9th: National Chess Day Tea#3

additional notes: Then I wanted to have a white tea with “white” in the title.  And it’s a sipdown!  I can’t really expand on my last note.  It’s a good white!  Still tastes like white paper (in a good way) which is a weird note from me.
2021 sipdowns:  129

eastkyteaguy

White paper is not such a weird flavor note for this tea. Wuyi white tea always has a chalky mineral note to me.

eastkyteaguy

Oh, and your note made me recall that one of my best friends from college used to eat paper napkins when he got stressed. He also had a pet named Steven that was a moldy loaf of bread that he kept in a bag on his bookshelf. My friends are weird.

tea-sipper

A moldy loaf of bread! Well, I guess the mold IS alive.

eastkyteaguy

He doesn’t have Steven the Mold Loaf anymore, but he still eats paper. We’re still friends. He’s a doctor now. He’s also one of the more normal of my friends. My best friend from college exists in a towel, boxers, or a bathrobe when he is not at work. He’s very McPoyle-like in that respect. He has to be completely nude, or he can’t go to the bathroom. If he gets excited, he starts dancing and yelling. He does this everywhere. He’s never grown out of the toddler-like tendency to investigate the world with his hands and mouth either. He will put things in his mouth that I will not smell or even look at. I have literally stopped to look out the window to see this person with his arms out spinning around to make himself dizzy. Another of my friends runs a Neopagan and occult supply store and makes components for cosplay outfits. Her nickname is “Nerve Pills.” She’s married to another friend of mine who decided to take up leather tanning and blacksmithing as a hobby, enjoys drunkenly throwing axes at trees, and if what she says is true, has to be prevented from wearing a fursuit to work on his car, because that’s just what you do if you’re going to work on your car in the driveway at 2:00 pm on a Sunday. I have another friend who drinks ritualistically, chainsmokes like Bill Hicks, does everything in his power to avoid acknowledging that anything after 2005 has ever happened, frequently declares tequila to be the cure for the human body, and enjoys wallowing around in the snow in his underwear. My best friend is obsessed with horror films, heavy metal, and professional wrestling and decided to become a plumber’s helper at the age of 34. To say my friends are odd is an understatement.

eastkyteaguy

Have you ever had to drop what you were doing because your boxer clad friend got his head stuck in a heating vent? Have you ever had to go looking for one of your friends at a ski resort in West Virginia and found him walking around barefoot in 18 degree weather wearing only jeans and a t-shirt eating handfuls of artifical snow? Because I have had both of these experiences.

eastkyteaguy

Have you ever been taking a shower and turn around to see one of your friends watching you and eating popcorn? I have had that experience too. He wasn’t even trying to be creepy either. He was hungry and lonely, made popcorn, and thought I might want some, so he decided to bring popcorn to me in the shower. We had to have the boundaries talk after that.q

tea-sipper

My eyes grabbed McPoyle and I laughed because I was just thinking of that show. Your buddies sure keep things interesting and unique. haha.

eastkyteaguy

I guess that you can look at it that way, but if I can successfully manage to present myself as the most normal person in a group of people, that might be a problem. Okay, there is no might to be to it. That is a problem. I’m a very odd person. I should never be the most normal person in any group. I have been described as a more athletic combination of Frank Reynolds, Carl Brutananadilewski, every Christopher Walken character ever, and Will Ferrell’s take on Harry Caray with an occasional bit of Larry David thrown in. I have also been told that I’m like if Philadelphia were a person who bizarrely never lived in Philadelphia yet inexplicably just is that way.

Crowkettle

@easyteaguy, Ok – I love your thorough, technical tea tasting notes but these personal stories & experiences are entertaining.

Maybe Steven would enjoy wuyi white teas?

eastkyteaguy

Probably not. Steven’s favorite thing was lounging in the sun that came through the window while stinking horribly. It was alleged that he enjoyed peanut butter and pretzel sticks, but I never saw him eat any.

Crowkettle

Steven deserves a book or tv series. I’d read it lol

Also, sorry for the name typo, eastkyteaguy!

eastkyteaguy

I didn’t even notice the typo. Sadly, Steven is mo longer with us. We forgot to remove him from our dorm during a break, and cleaning staff threw him away. There were a couple of other Stevens, but they didn’t last as long.

eastkyteaguy

I think we had one named Andrew as well.

tea-sipper

Whoa, very specific comparisons for you, eastkyteaguy. haha.

eastkyteaguy

tea-sipper, I have been meaning to ask you this for a bit, but you describe yourself as always being in search of teas from Hattialli. Why that estate in particular? I’ve had a couple Hattialli teas prior to the last one I reviewed, but so far, I’m having trouble getting into their products.

derk

I think we all needed a laugh :) People are strange.

derk

And yeah, I get limestone with this tea. That could come across as papery.

derk

My roommate is one of those handsy-mouthy people. It makes her a good glass artist. Yes, she ate a piece glass a few days ago. A simple mistake, no?

Leafhopper

Eastkyteaguy, your friends make me feel better about some of my stranger habits. :) I don’t have a mold loaf, but I’ve unintentionally cultivated mold in some of my teaware.

Derk, I hope your roommate is okay. I’m not sure glass is one of the food groups.

derk

I don’t watch much TV but I binged hard on Curb Your Enthusiasm several years ago. This winter would a great time to wallow in It’s Always Sunny.

Leafhopper, I don’t know if she’ll ever recover. RIP Kiki.

Crowkettle

Yes, I had a beautiful mold colony in one of my teapots during first year – it flourished unbeknownst to me for a few weeks on the dregs of Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice Herbal. I felt bad ending so much life (which was green-grey but smelled of cinnamon). Never drank that brand again.

I hope it was a dull tiny glob of glass! :O

tea-sipper

Eastkyteaguy – I just really loved the Hattialli from Butiki and haven’t really had many other Hattialli… I haven’t seen many available.

tea-sipper

I’m halfway through It’s Always Sunny and I’m still wondering how I find these screamy people who work in a bar so endearing (everyone except Dennis anyway).

Leafhopper

CrowKettle, mold grown from PG Tips doesn’t smell nearly as nice! :P I also recently dumped some almost spent leaves of a beautiful Shanlinxi oolong from Ethan into a mug, then forgot about them for two days and wondered why they smelled off. Into the garbage they went, along with the budding mold colony, and the mug got a good scrubbing.

Derk, I’m not sure whether “death by glass ingestion” would make a good epitaph, but I’d miss Kiki’s tasting notes!

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

99
1839 tasting notes

No rating, so far.

Grandpa, 2 grams, almost boiling water.

Is it too hot? Not enough leaves? Answer for both is nope. It was awesome tea! So smooth. And taste? Well hard to describe actually, it reminded me cream, but with wood and wet forest. Bit of minerality was there too. Astringency? Yep, but just a little bit.

Autumn tea. At least for me.

Derk; I have waited for good weather for this tea. And as it is typical autumn; wet, cloudy, rainy, unpleasant weather, I think it was just perfect. THANK you a lot for this experience!

ashmanra

I have had one or two teas from this comoany and remember they were impressive. Glad you enjoyed your tea today!

derk

You’re welcome, Martin. It is very good prepared in a gaiwan if you haven’t already.

Now I am envious because the weather became hot here again ~30C.

Martin Bednář

I have to try it in gaiwan as well, I have something left. I bet it will be awesome then. Today morning was temperature just 1°C. Which is kind of cold. I took my winter jacket and in the afternoon it was completely useless, but rainproof. I hate this weather when you do not know what to wear.

derk

I would love more 1C weather so I can drink all these comforting rock oolong and puerh teas in my closet! It will be cooling down a little over the next few days but we are under a high wildfire warning due to a combination of seasonal high winds and low relative humidity. To anticipate the possibility of wind-felled power lines sparking fires, the electric company might be cutting power to a very large region of northern California, effecting hundreds of thousands of people. According to the map, my house is one street outside the power outage zone, so I’m unsure if we’ll be without electricity for the next few days. My employer 2km up the road is in the zone but we have generators and due to the nature of our business, will be open to serve the community’s needs.

Mastress Alita

Todd’s new house was in the power outage zone. It was restored yesterday though.

derk

He moved, too? I hope he wasn’t effected too severely by the power outage. Only a small portion of my town ended up having the power cut but I’d say half my coworkers were effected.

derk

I wonder if Old Ways Tea was in the zone since they’re located I think in San Jose or Santa Clara.

Martin Bednář

I hope those temperatures would not make big troubles for anybody. Extremes are always bad.

Login or sign up to leave a comment.

99
1541 tasting notes

Saying goodbye to 2022 with the last bag of my favorite leafy white tea. So mellow. Goes well with this winter rain.

Flavors: Apricot, Creamy, Dried Fruit, Fireplace, Forest Floor, Hay, Honeysuckle, Limestone, Meat, Petrichor, Pine, Smooth, Wet Rocks

beerandbeancurd

Just read through the reviews on this, ran across yours from 4 years ago, and see you’re a Cali transplant from Ohio, too! I was just back in Cleveland and am coming to terms with the fact that I miss it a little more every time I leave. I truly never thought I’d say that.

If this tea is still available, I’ll pick it up and hope I can taste all that Ohio goodness you described.

beerandbeancurd

(… as I pull up their website and educate myself for 0.2 minutes, I realize this is probably an impossible mission, lol!)

Martin Bednář

Oh well, so good memories!

derk

beerandbeancurd, I’m from Dayton and went to school up your way. I understand what you mean. The nostalgia runs subtle and deep every time I visit but then I remind myself of why I left. Been out here for 12 years now.

I do miss the environment, my close friends and my brother, the only one of my family who still lives there.

Wish I still had this to share with you!

And Martin, I remember you appreciating this tea very much <3

Login or sign up to leave a comment.