How big is the appreciation potential of white tea, really?

Panxi Town is a recognized high-quality growing area for Fuding white tea and one of the orthodox birthplaces of Fuding white tea. The average altitude here is between 500 and 800 m, the area has ample sunshine, a mild climate, abundant rainfall, high humidity, and a large temperature difference between day and night, which is very favorable for the growth of white tea and the accumulation of nutrients. It is a naturally high-quality birthplace for Fuding white tea.

In recent years, white tea, which has both medicinal value and collectible value, has rapidly seized market share. A new consumption trend led by white tea is spreading. As the saying goes, "Drinking white tea is love for yourself in the present; storing white tea is a surprise for your future self."

Drinking white tea and enjoying the benefits it brings to life and the future has already become an ordinary thing in every street and alley. At the same time, perceptive consumers have surely noticed that white tea is gradually rising in price.

This year's white tea price increase is now well known among tea lovers, but this Bafang Tea Garden white tea perfectly avoided this year's rise in raw white tea material prices. In 2017, Bafang Tea Garden devoted itself to research and, building on its original production methods, strove for perfection and launched a new-generation white tea product - Gongmei. This Gongmei was pressed into tea cakes in the spring of 2017, then aged for one year in dry storage while biding its time, and it also uses old material from 2011, which by calculation makes it an 8-year-aged old white tea. It was only launched on the market this year, 2018, providing tea drinkers with a high-quality and affordable good product.

This year, spring white tea prices generally rose by more than 30-50%. What caused the price increase?

White tea is fresh and sweet, with an unforgettable flavor.

White tea, one of the six major tea categories, is famous for its fresh and crisp character, with no pan-firing and no rolling.

If tea-making is compared to cooking, then some green teas would be stir-frying, black tea would be like braising, and this white tea is like blanching, preserving the most original flavor of the tea leaves.

Just like feelings between people, it does not need to be earth-shattering; it only needs consistent warmth and sincerity.

White tea is cool and cold in nature, with effects comparable to rhinoceros horn.

White tea's reputation has a long history, and it was recorded as early as in the Compendium of Materia Medica and the Classic of Tea.

The Compendium of Materia Medica records: "White tea is cool and cold in nature, with effects comparable to rhinoceros horn." Traditional Chinese medicine theory proves that white tea is warm in flavor and cool in nature, and has the effects of reducing fever, lowering internal heat, removing dampness, and eliminating toxins.

Old white tea has been used among the people to clear heat and reduce internal heat.

It is said that locally in Fuding, when children have a fever or adults have swollen and painful gums, people will brew a pot of old white tea to relieve the pain.

The climate in the south is often damp. If eczema appears in summer, white tea is generally used both as a drink and applied topically, and the effect is said to be immediate.

One year it is tea, three years it is medicine, seven years it is treasure.

For white tea, this saying is just a conventional phrase, meaning that white tea is good tea, drinking white tea is good for the body, and storing white tea is something more profitable than buying stocks. So why is white tea so amazing? Why does white tea receive so much praise? People who like drinking white tea should all take a look!

"One year it is tea": because white tea belongs to lightly fermented tea, the white tea made in the first year is close to the taste of green tea.

"Three years it is medicine": white tea is just this wonderful. If it is carefully treasured for two or three years, during storage the internal components of the tea leaves slowly change, the aroma turns aged, and the liquor color gradually transforms from apricot green into apricot yellow or a bit deeper. When tasting, the aroma is mellow and the flavor gradually becomes softer. The nature of the tea also turns from cool to warm.

"Seven years it is treasure": to be precise, white tea stored until five or six years already counts as old white tea. As it ages with time, the internal substances of white tea transform and become ever more mellow, and alongside the aged fragrance there remains the distinctive pekoe aroma of white tea. The flavor is fragrant and rich, and the liquor color is amber, bright red and transparent. For white tea that has reached this age, after drinking a few cups of piping hot old white tea, you will feel much more relaxed all over.

Old white tea not only has remarkable effects, but most importantly it also tastes good.

In white tea stored for many years, the internal components of the tea leaves gradually transform, the aroma components gradually volatilize, and the pekoe aroma of new tea transforms into lotus leaf fragrance, jujube fragrance and medicinal fragrance, while the liquor color gradually settles from pale yellow into apricot yellow and amber red, and the flavor also becomes more mellow and robust.

Among these, sweetness is the simplest and most intuitive sensation of old white tea. Take a sip of tea, and after the liquor slides through the mouth, you can feel the sweet taste spreading through the mouth.

The craft of white tea is unique and natural.

Compared with other tea categories, white tea is closer to nature, its processing craft is the most natural, and its flavor is even more pure and natural.

Its flavonoid content is high, and its average amino acid content is higher than that of the other five major tea categories. Experiments have shown that, due to its unique processing craft and internal substances, its health benefits are better than those of other tea categories.

The advantages of white tea are unmatched by other teas.

White tea is a tea category unique to Fujian and has outstanding health functions superior to other tea categories. The patterns of change during white tea processing have broad application scenarios for enriching GABA and improving the quality of gamma-aminobutyric acid tea.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid: the GABA contained in white tea is often greater than in other teas. GABA, namely gamma-aminobutyric acid, is a natural biologically active component widely present in animals and plants. With the development of GABA research, it has been found to have multiple biological functions closely related to human health.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid makes white tea better suited to modern life.

Gamma-aminobutyric acid tea is a functional tea with multiple health benefits. In recent years, many studies at home and abroad have found that gamma-aminobutyric acid tea has multiple effects against the "modern diseases" of Chinese people today, such as regulating nervous system function, anti-depression, blood pressure-lowering, and anti-aging.

As the health benefits of gamma-aminobutyric acid tea continue to be discovered, researching and developing gamma-aminobutyric acid white tea is very valuable for modern life.

The transformation of tea nature after storage, and the easy adaptability of being suitable for both brewing and boiling.

Shoumei is made from one bud and two or three leaves, with a pure aroma and a mellow flavor. During storage, the internal components slowly change, the aroma gradually transforms, the liquor color gradually turns red, the flavor becomes mellow, and the nature of the tea also gradually turns from cool to warm.

As white tea settles with the years, its original fresh fragrance gradually evolves into lotus fragrance, jujube fragrance, and even medicinal fragrance, with a full, sweet mouthfeel. Compared with brewing, boiling is even more recommended, for a mellower taste and richer aroma.

Its health-preserving value is being valued by more and more people.

Since ancient times, in the rural areas of northeastern Fujian, white tea stewed with rock sugar has often been used to reduce internal heat and remove dryness, and to treat toothache, constipation, and so on. In white tea-producing areas such as Fuding, aged white tea is also commonly used to treat measles, fever, and so on in children. To this day it is also often called "anti-inflammatory and internal-heat-clearing tea."

Research results from scholars at home and abroad further show that white tea has more distinctive effects in protecting the cardiovascular system, resisting radiation, inhibiting bacteria and viruses, and inhibiting cancer cell activity.

Perhaps because of the above attributes, it is sought after by tea lovers.

Due to market demand, prices have gradually begun to rise!

Whether or not you understand the market situation of white tea, and whether or not you accept it, various tea markets and people working in the tea industry have all stated, and market facts are also proving, that white tea is rising in price year by year!