While white tea seems to be made just about everywhere these days, Fujian Province is the historic home to this rare and special tea.  Traditional white tea is made from the budset-only of a sub-variety of Camellia sinensis that is indigenous to parts of Fujian Province, where this tea has been made for over 200 years. The techniques used by these experienced tea farmers result in a very delicious taste experience.

We recently tasted, and then purchased at auction, a very tasty white tea from Nilgiri, India that we think has exceptional style and represents the profile of "modern" white tea.

To learn more about white tea, click here.

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Yellow tea is often categorized as a green tea, but it features one additional step in the processing. Before shaping, the tea is steamed very slightly and then allowed to rest, resulting in a very smooth and fine flavored tea. Yellow teas are usually a budset-only picking, the crème de la crème of all leaf pickings, and were once Tribute Teas, reserved only for the Emperor's enjoyment.

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