Silver Tips - White Tea, Navalapitiya, Sri Lanka

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

White Tea facts...


  • White tea comes from the uppermost buds of the tea

  • White tea can be chewed or boiled in for 5 minutes before drinking.

  • Neither milk nor sugar added to white tea.

  • Per kilo is Rs.6,000- Rs, 7,000; ($ 60-70).

  • Export market in Arab countiries. They give white tea as wedding gift to their children and believe it's a prestigious gift for their loved ones.

  • During rain season price of white tea goes up, because cannot ferment it in sunrise.

  • White tea is being produced in Sri Lanka for the past twenty years.
    It was grown in low grown areas earlier, and high grown areas have started to produce later.

  • Now it's being produced in low and high grown areas. The white tea is never touched by an ungloved hand.

  • Fifty percent of the tea factories in Sri Lanka produce at least one kilogram of white tea per month. The tea must dry naturally, not in machines.