Mislabeled "white peony"

It could be one part BaiMudan to whatever parts of filler so they can make the claim. Or from your description more SowMee than BaiMudan. SowMee is the end of season dark brown leaf. BaiMudan is midseason 50% green leaf/white bud. Yinzhen is the first all bud of the season. The only white tea that is cheap is SowMee. It doesn't make any sense to me to put any white tea in a bag except maybe SowMee which is so cheap the bagging would cost more. The grading just doesn't work that way to make fines/dust. White tea in bags is more marketing than anything else.

Jim

Knack wrote:

Hi,

I happen to know that Triple Leaf does produce a white tea > It could be one part BaiMudan to whatever parts of filler so they can

If any white tea was sold as small grade I could see fines/dust as a by product for teabags. Since it isn't you get what you pay for. I bought some puer tea bags once which was 50% cork. You could believe the claim on the box for multiple infusions because it would never get water logged and sink. I'm not even curious to buy cheap white tea bags in Chinatown. However if I was sure it was midseason 100% White Peony I'd load up.

Jim

ah2323 wrote:

Space Cowboy:

Cork? Really? That is shocking, and--I think--illegal under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938). Is there any way to know whether what you are getting is actually tea at all?

Space Cowboy wrote:

I double checked the puer teabag in question. It is a Taiwan brand and either 50% cork or 50% chrysthanthemum flower. It still could be used as a liferaft.

Jim

ah2323 wrote:

Somehow I always pictured you as bigger than that. Or is it a *huge* teabag?

/Lew

It would have to be bigger than huge to keep me afloat. But even a little would probably work as a shark repellent. If the boat leaves without me like in Open Water I want some of this stuff.

Jim

Lewis Per>

It *says* that? Or is this an educated guess?

Space Cowboy wrote:

BTW, I have had bagged Pu erh before. It wasn't as good as even inferior whole leaf, but it did taste *like* Pu Erh, and it didn't display any particular buoyancy. The only tea-like product I've ever had behave that way was a certain well-known brand of Rooibus (sp?).

It was an educated guess when I double checked the teabag. I just checked the box. It says Chrysthanthemum Flower Puerh Tea in Chinese. It is common to drink the two together. Maybe the flower is more buoyant than the tea.

Jim

ah2323 wrote:

Actually, I think I've tried it before, although I don't remember it floating. Not great, but at .79 for a box of 20, could have been much, much worse.

Space Cowboy wrote: