White tea is called the elixir of youth and immortality, the imperial drink. Among the six main Chinese tea varieties, white tea occupies a special, honorable position, is considered the most refined. In this article, we will tell you what white tea is, what it looks like, what its properties are and what variety names exist.

Teas are divided into many varieties and species according to various characteristics. Understanding all the variety is quite simple.

Before fresh tea leaves are processed, they undergo a preliminary sorting step, during which dirty, diseased, etc. tea leaves are rejected. Sometimes, at the same stage, the highest quality flushes for elite teas are selected. This sort is only done manually.

During the collection of white tea, special attention is paid to leaf selection. Usually for white tea they collect only sa & shy; my young semi-decayed leaves of the first harvest, half-covered with short white hairs of an open tea kidney (& laquo; buy xoa & raquo; & mdash; & laquo; white cilia & raquo;). For elite white teas, either only one apical leaf (more precisely, tipsa) is collected; or tipsa plus another leaf following it.