White Crow 2025 Bangdong Shoumei White Tea
Price range: $4.50 through $120.00
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Description
This year’s edition of White Crow maintains the same great qualities as previous years, including pleasant florals, a touch of hay, and a honey-like sweetness. This is all despite an unplanned change in the source material, which now comes from Bangdong (still Lincang).
This change was a means to maintain the same quality, and in side-by-side comparisons with the ’23 and ’24 pressings, was difficult to distinguish. If anything, this year’s tea is an improvement, offering a creamier texture and wildflower fragrance.
As with previous years, this tea performs well for multiple gongfu infusions, as well as boiled on the stove, and is well suited for drinking now or storing for the future.
$0.14/gram
Picking Period: Autumn 2025
Region: Bangdong, Yunnan
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2 reviews for White Crow 2025 Bangdong Shoumei White Tea
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Alexandra Verville-Paris (verified owner) –
The disappearing taste made this session quite difficult to evaluate. Thankfully, the heat lingers in the mouth, which felt good during the cold winter we’re having.
// Smell: Wild flowers, sweet hay, diluted fruit infusion, floral hand soap, mineral
// Texture: Tingling on the tip of the tongue, cool effect like drinking cough syrup, medium-to-thick texture that leaves the mouth almost immediately
// Taste: Honey-and-water concoction, spiced flowers, cooked pie dough, “floral” hay, peppery potato cream soup
// Body sensation: Vanished saliva, sandy effect on the tongue, quickened heartbeat, energy and desire for things to go faster, eyes awake
Alen D (verified owner) –
Really nice shou mei, it’s not what I usually expect, but it also doesn’t have any stuff that I don’t like (dry and woody notes don’t appear even with boiling water).
Smooth, creamy, medium to under medium body, giving a juice box impression. It has those velvety white peony notes followed by some slightly tart currant notes. It keeps ramping up the juicy impression with each steep and at some point I start to pickup bitter notes of apple seeds. Brewing it with under boiling water yields a slightly more sweet brew which lacks the tart element. Wet leaf has a strong rose water aroma, it reminds me of Turkish delight a bit.