This Yin Zhen, or Silver Needle, is right up there in taste and quality with anything coming out of Fujian. It's the first white tea from Yunnan that I've been impressed with. I brewed a generous amount of leaf for 4 minutes, decanted and let that sit for 10 full minutes creating a dark, engaging brew that was at once subtle, delicate, refined...and complex. Scott calls my four minute infusions "grandpa style". I've also noticed, over the years, that drinking a yin tea of this caliber helps to offset the heavy yang Pu-erhs of a morning's overindulgence. The soothing, calming quality of this tea holds up with a second, longer infusion. Frank Hadley Murphy Author "The Spirit of Tea" and "Tea Fried Brain"

I very much enjoyed my 2018 cake and had some left to compare to this year. The dry aroma for both seemed unchanged, a light, sweet floral scent. If brewed with water a minute off-boil, the tea can be made to carry a mild astringent power to hint at a sheng, but if not pushed, this tea offers a clear liquored, clean tasting, simple floral sweetness. Very fresh taste. While more alike than different, I would note the freshness of the 2019 seemed to offer perhaps a slightly more clear, floral sweet and the 2018 slightly more mellow grassy. Of note, the cakes are super easy to pull apart by hand after a first loosening. This is due to the high amount of pekoe on the buds, sliding like silk across each other as they pull apart. Scrumptious stuff.

I can't describe this other than how overwhelmingly the rinse and the first infusion smell like froot loops. it sounds crazy but everyone i've served this to have all independently said it tastes/smells like froot loops. it ultimately mellows out into a softer, light fruity quality. the first time i made this it blew my mind. i'll probably throw one of these into my next few orders.

Wonderful taste!!!

Tastes very similar to regular silver needle. Slightly sweet and fruity. The price is right too