2012 Lao Shoumei 老寿眉 - Aged white tea, Stone-pressed cake
Selected farmers
The years of commitment to our land, taking care of the trees and trying to achieve to best quality through the leaf-processing, continuously learning season after season, allowed us to build valuable relationships with other tea-producers all over China that we are glad to support and share with you.
Our constantly updated offer includes all tea categories: white, green, yellow, red, dark (fermented heicha), and wulong.
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Shipping
Orders to Europe & Americas: Shipped from European Union, Italy — delivered in 1–5 days (EU) or 5–12 days (non-EU).
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Your order will be shipped directly from our warehouse in Yunnan, China.
For European countries there is no custom-clearance procedure; for all the other shipments we accompany the package with all the necessary papers to ensure the fastest process possible.
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Other countries
Processing & Shipping Schedule
We ship orders every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you have a specific request, simply add a note during checkout and we'll do our best to accommodate you.
Shipping Carriers & Pickup Options
Orders to Italy: shipped via BRT. You can choose a BRT pickup point.
Orders to Europe & USA: shipped via DHL Express or UPS. You can select a UPS Access Point (Europe) or a DHL Service Point (USA).
Orders to Asia: shipped via EMS. For more details, see www.easternleaves.asia.
Eastern Leaves’s Guarantee
Your happiness is our priority. If you are not completely satisfied with your purchase, we will happily honor a return or exchange.
Every item is expertly packaged to ensure it arrives safely and beautifully. In the rare event that an item is damaged during shipping, please contact us immediately at info@easternleaves.com and we will replace it free of charge.
福鼎 Fuding, the birthplace of white tea
mount taimu and the origin of white tea
According to folklore, during Xia dynasty (around 4000 years ago), a lady called Lan Gu of Taimu Mountain in Fuding used white tea to save many children from measles, thus earning the nickname “Taimu auntie”. Mount Taimu 太姥山 (literally “old woman”) later became one of the most famous white tea mountains where Lu Xue Ya 绿雪芽, the mother tree of white tea, still grows, although it is now used mostly to make green tea.
where the best cultivars grow
Fuding Dabai 福鼎大白 (literally "big white") and Fuding Dahao 福鼎大毫 (literally "big fluff"), with their thick buds rich in precious silver fur, are now the most popular cultivars for white tea in Fujian. Since 1985, they were respectively given the name of Huacha n.1 华茶一号, and Huacha n.2 华茶二号, according to a Chinese classification system which identifies the best cultivars at a National level.
At about 600 meters above sea level, Fuding is both close to the sea and to the mountains. Here, when walking around tea trees, you can both breathe the sea breeze and the fresh mountain air, and the tea trees also get to enjoy this complex ecosystem, which is released in the flavor at each brew.
