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Our Gong Mei is produced in Pan Xi Town, Fu Ding City, Fujian province in China. Gong Mei sometimes is also called Shou Mei because it is a more premium version of Shou Mei, made of better raw material. Gong Mei is more tender than Shou Mei, since its picking time is earlier (but both are later than White Peony).
The dry Gong Mei tea leaves are pretty similar to Shou Mei – a bunch of scattered dead leaves. However, as an opposite of its unimpressive appearance, the taste of the tea is very pleasant as it has a mellow and fresh floral aroma and a long-lasting sweet aftertaste with unique white tea flavour. Our 2015 Gong Mei has been aged for several years, and as a result, it also contains a jujube and lotus aroma. The colour of the tea soup is in clear bright orange/yellow without any impurities.
3 teaspoon(s)
100°C (125ml)
5-6 mins
Enjoy!
6 tsp
100°C (250ml)
5-6 mins
Enjoy!
12 tsp
100°C (500ml)
5-6 mins
Enjoy!
The origin of this Gong Mei is Pan Xi Town, Fu Ding City, Fujian province in China. 90% of the area in Pan Xi town belongs to high mountain area, with an overall elevation of around 600-1200 metres. The forest coverage rate of this town is over 88% while the greening rate is over 96%. Its primitive environment manages to preserve many ancient trees, with 318 registered well-known ancient trees in the area.
In the morning and evening, the mountains are surrounded by clouds, fogs and mists, so the rainfall there is abundant. Despite the high elevation of the entire town, there is still plenty of sunlight for better growth of the tea trees, which is conducive to the synthesis of amino acids and nitrogen-containing aromatics inside teas. The quality of the white tea produced from Pan Xi town is always at the top grades.
Raw Material:
Gong Mei’s picking standard is of “one tea bud with two or three leaves”, which is very similar with White Peony. However, normally the raw material of Gong Mei is Xiao Cai Cha which is a group species mixed cultivar widely planted in the northern Fujian for thousands of years. In compare, Sliver Needle and White Peony is using Fu Ding Da Bai or Zheng He Da Bai tea leaves as raw material. The tea leaves of Xiao Cai Cha are smaller than Da Bai tea leaves, and because of this, Going Mei was also called ‘Xiao Cai Cha’ in the past. It was used as tribute in the Qing dynasty. In Chinese, a tribute is pronounced as ‘Gong’, so this particular white tea is so called ‘Gong Mei’.
However, due to the low yield of Xiao Cai Cha nowadays, our Gong Mei was made by Fu Ding Da Bai leaves instead of Xiao Cai Cha.
Origin: Fujian
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Nerida –
I’ve been buying this for a while now , it’s such good value for its age ,?I have it everyday , it has a lovely sweetness about it , I’ve tried so many , ones with a bit more age than this one and I’ve gone back to this one , I love it ❤️
Kate –
A really mellow example of a fantastic white tea. The sweet aftertaste is incredibly moore-ish!
Ali –
This tea has a nice clarity when brewed and the flavour is very more-ish. A real palate cleanser.
Jesse C. –
I bought a whole lot of this white tea from different sites and this was by far the best one. As a lifelong tea drinker and white tea connoisseur, I can happily say this is very, very good tea.