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Lewis Perin

Michael Plant > writes:

> Space 4/28/06
>
>
> > White tea has an ephemeral taste. Till you know what it is, brew it
> > with boiling water and lots and lots of leaf letting it stew in the pot
> > for at least 5 minutes. It can take the abuse. There is no such thing
> > as a astringent bitter overbrewed white tea. The white tea that cries
> > out for a glass pot is Yinzhen. It will look like stalactites in the
> > water. One of my favorite anytime teas is a white tea called SowMee.
> > It is cheap and easily found in Chinatown. It makes a mushy pot of
> > tea. It looks like autumn leaves after a rain. The other white tea is
> > called BaiMuDan. It contains hair particulate which adds a nice foam
> > to the cup. I especially like a White tea when I'm tired of everything
> > else.
> >
> > Jim
>
> Aha! Bai Mu Dan has some buds and some adjacent leaves. Sow Mee -- I'm not
> sure this isn't Shu Mei

Shou Mei.

/Lew
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