Bai Mudan - White Tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea
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Bai Mudan, or White Peony, is a white tea of large open leaves picked together with plenty of young, unopened buds still covered in fine silvery hairs. This one comes from Oothu in southwest India and is handled by hand with as little processing as possible, which is what keeps the cup so light: sweet, mild and clean, without the grip of a black tea. Supplied as 100 g of loose leaf.
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Bai Mudan white tea
Bai Mudan, also called White Peony, is the white tea you get when the large leaves are picked along with the young buds rather than the buds on their own. The leaf in this 100 g pack comes from Oothu in southwest India and is worked by hand with as little intervention as possible: no heavy rolling and no high-heat firing, just careful withering and drying. That is why it looks the way it does loose in the pack, whole and open and pale, with silvery-haired buds running all through it.
In the cup
Light and clean, sweet rather than sharp, with the gentle mildness the buds bring. There is almost no astringency in it, so it wants neither milk nor sugar and it is easy to keep drinking through an afternoon.
Brewing
White tea does not want boiling water. Let the kettle stand a minute or two so the water is around 75 to 85°C, use roughly 2 to 3 g of leaf per 200 ml and steep for two to three minutes. Because the leaves are whole and barely processed, the same measure will give you a second and often a third infusion; add a little time to each one.
Good to know
- Tea: Bai Mudan (White Peony), white tea
- Origin: Oothu, southwest India
- Leaf: large whole leaves with plenty of young, unopened buds
- Processing: by hand, kept to a minimum
- Flavour: light, sweet and mild
- Format: 100 g loose-leaf tea from Café du Jour
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