Tealyra - Imperial Yunnan Silver Needle - White Loose Leaf Tea - Top Chinese White Tea - Caffeine Level Low - 200g (7-ounce)

Good value & elegant taste .. my opinion

Fantastic tea!

Great quality white tea. Hubby loves it!

This review is for the Imperial Yunnan White Tea. I'm just realizing that there is also one from Tealyra called something like Premium White Silver Needle that is different...that's the one I had on auto-ship and when I ran low I ordered some Imperial Yunnan by accident and it is so much better. Just fresh and fragrant. I'm not saying the other is bad, but in my opinion the only reason to get that one is that it might be a little less expensive per ounce. This stuff converted me from a bourgeois teabagger into a loose-leaf tea snob.

The overall flavor is very nice. It was picked well, you get 100% tips. But for some reason, it smells like ketchup, and it has a seafood aftertaste if you steep it a bit too long.

I purchased this tea because it was listed on a fluoride-conscious website as lower in fluoride than almost any other white teas. Who knows...I hope it is. It is not jasmine, but it has a slightly jasmine taste.

This is not imperial grade. Some of the buds in the tea are black, so I have to inspect and clean the tea every time I brew it. I even found a hair and a small feather now that I've been looking closely at it. I don't know if mine was a bad batch or if this is a general problem with this brand.

I really enjoy white tea, but often stick to green tea because of the price difference. There's really not much to be said about this specific product that you can't say about other white tea. All the leaves were whole and in tact; 99% of the bag were whole, undamaged leaves as you want with very few, "scraps," left at the bottom of the bag. The flavor was subtle and nutty with very low caffeine content, making it a good addition to any tea you want to mix it with, whether it be green, yellow, black, oolong, or most herbal infusions, however if you are going to mix it with anything but green or yellow tea, you should brew them seperately as white tea should be brewed at a much lower temperature than black, oolong, and most herbal infusions.