33° Signature High Grown Nepal- Silver Tips Special White Tea
$ 24.00
Tea Name: 33° Signature High Grown Nepal- Silver Tips Special White Tea
Style: Loose Leaf
Standard: Gold
Elevation: 7000-7500 ft
Flush: 1st flush
Sourcing Region: Illam
Suggested infusions: 2
This highest grade Tea is selectively picked finest downy buds, grown at the highest altitude tea plantation in Nepal (7000 ft- 7500 feet.) processed into White Tea.
In the early spring, when the first lot of new buds appear, farmers rush to the field to pluck them quickly (usually within a week) before they unfurl into leaves. These fine, potent buds appear after a period of dormancy the tea plant goes through in the winter. This causes them to be full of flavors and packed with antioxidants, when minimally processed into white tea.
Silver Tips White Tea is the simplest, rarest and most exquisite of teas. Also known as Silver Needle White Tea, it is considered to be the highest grade teas in the world of tea. Some even call it the Champagne of Tea.
These beautiful Silver Green Downy Buds from the highest elevation tea plantation from the himalayas of Nepal smell like sweet-sweet forest honey when you smell it dry, which unfurls into a Muted Golden liquor when steeped. The texture is velvety soft which lubricates your palate, while tasting like Banana Cantaloupe. It finishes in your mouth with a soft and gentle juiciness with a body calming satisfaction.
Preparation
We believe that tea drinking experience should be completely personal and liberating. There is no right or wrong way to brew tea. Individual taste buds are unique. Therefore we encourage tea lovers to not necessarily bind themselves with our methods but let their experience, contemplation and discovery be personal. After all, that is where the joy of drinking tea lies.. We believe that a tea drinker should try different variations of brewing methods, amount of tea, steeping time and water temperature to come to find the perfect taste they fall in love with.
We have tried three different ways of brewing this particular tea.
Milder-Soothing
This is the most common way of brewing Silver Tips Tea.
STEPS
1. Get 8 oz filtered water and bring it to boil.
2. Let it cool down to 80C-90C or 180F-190F, which is about 2 minutes of letting it sit after removing it from the stove after the boil.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of Tea Buds into a clear glass or steeping cup.
4. Pour the water into the glass containing the tea buds.
5. Watch how beautifully the buds start sinking to the bottom one by one after a few minutes..
6. Let it steep for 10 minutes.
7. The color is faint golden. Taste is soft and soothing.Enjoy every sip of it.
Mild-Calming
This is the most balanced way.
STEPS
1. Get 8 oz filtered water and bring it to boil.
2. Add about 1.5 teaspoon of tea buds into a clear glass or in your Steeping cup.
3. Pour the boiling hot water into your clear glass or steeping cup containing tea buds.
4. Let it steep for 12 minutes.
5. Watch how beautifully the buds start sinking to the bottom one by one after a few minutes..
6. The color is Bright golden. Enjoy every sip of it.
Robust-Refreshing
This is the most uncommon way of brewing white tea, and People even call it a sin in Tea circles, but it is something we have seen farmers do casually in Nepal.
Get 10 oz filtered water and bring it to boil. Drop 1.5 teaspoon of tea buds in the boiling water and let it boil for 2 mins. Turn off the stove, and let it sit and steep for 10 mins. You get the most unique flavor packed robust white tea. The color is Rusty Rose-gold. Enjoy every sip of it
