Heavy Roast Spring Rare White

This unique white tea offers a deeply comforting and woody profile, mellowed by a gentle sweetness. The special bamboo roasting process imparts a distinctive character, creating a tea that is both smo. It leans woody, mellow and sweet.

Water around 75–85 °C (167–185 °F). In a mug, steep 3–5 min. For gongfu, use 4–5 g per 100 ml, 20–40 s steeps. You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. Pretty forgiving. Oversteeping by a bit won't ruin it the way it would with a green.

Grown in Yunnan, China. This batch is from the Spring 2024 harvest. The leaves got a heavy roast after picking.

Starts at $10.00 from Yunnan Sourcing, or about $0.16/g. A 50g package gets you around 8 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $0.96 per session. Compare white prices across vendors on Teadar.