White Snake 2025 Spring Yiwu White Tea
Price range: $4.00 through $108.00
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Description
Using the same left-to-grow material as our annual Year of the Snake Yiwu raw puer, this tea delivers a pleasant fragrance sweet soup at a budget-friendly price. Compared to our previous Dragon pressing, this year’s tea has a much denser soup and even a bit of creaminess to it.
Similar to its puer counterpart, this tea demonstrates the difference a good environment and well-tended (or rather untended) land can make in terms of the final product.
Pick up both the raw puer and black tea versions in order to compare the same material with different processing.
$0.12/gram
As we highlight each year, a big draw with this tea is the quality of material used. The trees were planted by this farmer’s family over 45 years ago, at which point plantation style terraces were more common. However, since the 2000s, these trees have been converted to fangyang (放养, or “left to grow”). This means no pesticides, weed killer, pruning, fertilizers or over-picking.
While this style of farming isn’t ideal for producing maximum output, it does contribute to much higher quality tea than neighboring taidi productions, which adhere to conventional farming methods. The other downside is that the trees left to grow taller on their own tend to compete for space and may require relocation, which isn’t always successful. Additionally, manual weeding is a laborious task that takes at least a month each year to complete. Picking tall trees, even if they’re only middle-aged, is also a more difficult task than pruned bushes.
But if we had our way, every tea would be like this. The deeper roots and more concentrated yield produce a tea richer in fragrance and flavour than typical plantation productions in this price range. And of course, all this without the presence of any pesticides or harmful substances.
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2 reviews for White Snake 2025 Spring Yiwu White Tea
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Dylan (verified owner) –
A pleasant surprise in my sampling. A bit ready and woody, some baked goods and apples and shortbread biscuits. I’m surprised this is the same material as the puer!
Alen D (verified owner) –
I tried this tea couple of times, usually with boiling water and I was unimpressed by it. It was too dry and the complexity was very subtle. With the last 5 grams of the sample I decided to keep the water at 90C and steep it short, and it turns out, it’s the best I’ve had it so far. It’s not a banger, but it’s not your average Joe either.
The mouthfeel is clean and fresh, the first few steeps show some gentle, palate cleansing bitterness with a floral-fruity background that I just can’t properly identify, but I rember it vividly from my chilhood years ridden with respiratory troubles and drinking a certain plant-based syrup medicine. Mid-session this tea feels very hydrating as it enters past the throat while the mouth dries up somewhat and the bitterness subsides. By the end of the session I was straining multiple steeps into a pitcher and slowly drank it while working. The mouth felt like it had a herbal cleanse and the breathing was pleasant due to retronasal tasting.