2022 Silver Needle White Tea Cake - Bai Hao Yin Zhen 100g

Enjoy this beautifully looking white tea cake consisting of fatty buds from the Yunnan ‘Da Ye Zhong’ cultivar. This silver needle cake brews a yellow liquor with a soft taste and refreshing aroma. Everything you can expect from a top grade white tea.

Different from loose leaves, the raw material of this cake is first steamed soft and afterwards compressed. When stored, the leaves will slowly improve further in taste, acquiring an amazing flavor in 3 years, and reaching its full potential in about 7 years.

How To Prepare an Aged Silver Needle Tea Cake?

As for any tea cake, the best is to pry of a chunk using a tea knife. If you don't have one, you may visit the tea accessories page to get one at an affordable price. Because this silver needle cake is fairly loosely compressed, it's may also possible to simply use your hand to loosen up some outer leaves of the cake.

Luckily for most aged whites, including this cake, it's hard for the preparation to go wrong, as these are fairly forgiving teas. We recommend to start out with a 90 ºC (195 ºF) temperature, but you may adjust it according to your taste.

The actual steeping time will depend on the tea-to-leaf ratio, which you apply, and the teaware you use. A good indication is the tea colour: When it turns light yellow, it means it's ready to drink. Don't worry, aged white teas are hard to oversteep!

How to Store White Tea Cakes?

So your order just got delivered, and you want to know how to optimally store a white tea cake? Then read our white tea cake storage guide.