What is the grade of white tea?

It can be divided into five types: Baihao Yinzhen, Bai Mudan, Quancheng Red, Quancheng Green, Gongmei, Shoumei and New White Tea.

1, the best-Bai Hao Silver Needle

It is named for its dense white fur, white as silver and needle-like appearance. The aroma is fresh, the soup is yellowish and the taste is fresh. It is the best in white tea and is known as the "beauty" and "tea king" in tea.

2. Excellent product-Bai Mudan

Bai Mudan is famous for its green leaves and silvery white heart-shaped flowers. After brewing, the green leaves hold the buds, just like the original buds. Bai Mudan is the best white tea, which is made of short buds and leaves, one bud and one leaf of Dabai tea tree or narcissus variety.

3. Top grade-Gongmei

Gongmei's output accounts for more than half of the total output of white tea. It is made from the buds and leaves of tea trees. This kind of raw tea made of tea tree bud leaves is called "Xiaobai", which is different from "Dabai" raw tea made of Fuding Dabai tea and Zhenghe Dabai tea.

4. China product-Shoumei

Shoumei is a kind of white tea, which is made of short buds and white tea leaves collected from vegetable tea (another name for general shrub tea trees in Fujian tea area). Usually "Gongmei" means top grade, and quality is better than longevity. Generally, it is only called Gongmei, and there is no longer longevity beauty. The origin of Gongmei is mainly in Jianyang County, Fujian Province, and it is also produced in Jian 'ou and Pucheng.

5. Ordinary-new technology white tea

New craft white tea is a specialty of Fujian, mainly produced in Fuding, Zhenghe, Songxi and Jianyang. New white tea, referred to as new white tea for short, is made by withering and gently kneading according to the processing technology of white tea. The new products developed by Fuzhou Branch of China Tea Company (now Fujian Tea Import and Export Co., Ltd.) and Fuding Tea Factory on 1968 to meet the needs of Hong Kong and Macao markets have been exported to the European Union, Southeast Asian countries and Japan.

Extended data

The production methods and quality of different producing areas are slightly different. Fuding Silver Needle was also called "North Road Silver Needle" earlier. When picking, choose a cool sunny day, spread the fresh needles thinly on the withered curtains, and expose them to the sun. When the water content reaches 10-20%, spread them on a baking tray (the baking tray is lined with paper towels to prevent the buds from burning and turning yellow), and dry them with slow fire (40-50℃) until they are completely dry. Bai Hao Silver Needle is also called "Lu Nan Silver Needle". Fresh needles are spread on a water curtain, placed in a ventilated place, dried until the water content is 20-30%, and then moved to the hot sun to dry. Sunny days can also be sunned first and then. Raw tea is classified as refined tea and packaged while it is hot after reheating.

Every autumn and winter, the management of fertilizer cultivation should be strengthened to cultivate strong buds for tea trees with white hair and silver needles. In the following year, the first and second rounds of spring tea have the best terminal buds, and after the third and fourth rounds, most of them are inverted buds, which are thinner. The first round of spring buds germinated after the regeneration of Taimowing is particularly fat, which is an ideal raw material for making high-quality white silver needles. Tea buds in summer and autumn are thin, which does not meet the requirements of raw materials of Baihao Yinzhen, and are generally not collected.

The picking of white silver needles is very meticulous and the requirements are extremely strict. It is stipulated not to pick in rainy days, wet dew, fine buds, purple buds, wind-injured buds, artificial buds, insect-injured buds, happy buds, hollow buds and diseased buds, which are called ten. Only the fat single bud head is picked, and if the new bud with one bud and one leaf is picked, only the bud heart is picked, commonly known as needle pulling (that is, the bud on one leaf is pinched off, the raw material of silver needle is pulled out, and the remaining stems and leaves are used as white tea or other teas with other colors).