Aged Yunnan White Tea

This white from Yunnan, China offers a distinctive drinking experience. This 2021 Yunnan white tea, crafted from old assamica trees, offers a thick and complex profile. It reveals layered fragrances and a persistent sweetness that unfolds beautifully in a gongfu session. . It sits in the "Sweet" and "Complex" and "Fragrant" flavor families, so expect a cup that leans sweet and complex and fragrant.

Aim for water around 75–85 °C (167–185 °F). Western style: steep for 3–5 minutes in a mug or teapot. Gongfu style: use 4–5 g per 100 ml, 20–40 s infusions for multiple short steeps — this way you can taste how the flavor evolves. White tea is forgiving. If you overshoot the steep time a little, it rarely turns bitter.

This white is grown in Yunnan, China and is made from the Da Ye Zhong cultivar. This particular batch comes from the 2021 harvest.

Prices start at $77.00 through white2tea — that works out to about $0.39 per gram. A 200g package gives you roughly 33 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which puts each session at around $2.34. You can compare prices across all vendors carrying this tea on the Teadar product page.