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White · Taimu Mountain, Fuding, Fujian
Silver Needle — Library
Fifteen years or more · re-tested yearly
4.8 · 6 reviews
CAD 62.00$
Stored twenty years until it settled into camphor, dried dates and a black liquor that tastes entirely clean.
Twenty yearsCamphorDried datesCounted in cakes
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From CAD 62.00$ to CAD 275.00$
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✓ Sealed in a light-proof tin
A library lot is a cake we bought, stored and then could not bring ourselves to sell until it had become something we wanted to drink. At this age the tea has stopped changing quickly and settled into its final character: camphor, Chinese medicine, dried dates and a liquor that is almost black yet tastes entirely clean. Quantities are counted in cakes, not kilograms.
Silver Needle itself comes from Taimu Mountain, Fuding, Fujian, grown as fuding da bai (great white), at 600 m. This lot is that same tea, handled and graded as described above — the leaf, the mountain and the maker do not change, only the picking window and the price.
- Gaiwan
- 4 g · 150 ml · 85 °C · 60 s, then +20 s per infusion · 6+ infusions
- Western
- 3 g per 250 ml · 85 °C · 3 min
- Vessel
- Gaiwan; white tea rewards patience and heat
We dispatch within 48 hours of your order, from our warehouse in China, with tracking on every parcel.
We do not quote a delivery date. Once a parcel leaves us it is carried by an international courier and cleared by customs in your country, and a date we cannot control is a date we will not promise. The tracking number, which you get when the label is created, shows every scan to your door.
Shipping is complimentary on orders over CAD 79.00$; below that a flat CAD 9.50$ applies. HST (13%) is calculated at checkout. Duties and import taxes are the recipient's responsibility.
Unopened tins can be returned within 30 days for a full refund. If a tea is not to your taste, tell us — we would rather send you something you like than keep the money.
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