Insight · A Matter of Time | Vol. 3 · White Tea Tasting
| Date | 14/11/2026 |
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| Session | 16:00 |
| Venue | 17院 · 老葉的兒子 |
| Price | RM 178.00 |
The same leaf, kept three, five, ten and fourteen years: how different does it taste?
In the first two sessions we drank Wuyi rock tea and Phoenix Dancong. Session three is white tea.
White tea is the simplest tea to make: only withering and drying. No step can rescue it, so it is the most honest tea. How good the leaf was and how long it has been kept, it all shows in the cup.
We line up four white teas along a timeline:
- 2023 pre-Qingming Bai Hao Yin Zhen (Silver Needle)
- 2021 premium pre-Qingming Bai Mu Dan
- 2016 wild-grown Gong Mei
- 2012 aged Shou Mei (steeped, then boiled)
From fresh, downy sweetness all the way to deep aged notes. The last tea, the Shou Mei, we steep once and then boil, so you can taste the difference between the two methods for yourself.
We'll talk about:
- the four kinds of white tea and how to tell them apart
- what "one year tea, three years medicine, seven years treasure" means
- wild tea versus wild-grown white tea
- how to brew white tea
We drink and talk tea together.
Included: a tasting of four white teas with tea snacks paired for them; take home one brew of each of the four teas (market value RM220).
Six seats per session.