White Tea Storage

ages beautifully; both young Silver Needle and aged white are valued This guide says which white to age and which to drink now.

The two failure paths for white are opposites. Too dry and it simply stalls and stays thin. Too damp and it sours or moulds.

White tea wants cool and stable and low to moderate. The exact environment, explained.

For white, short-term freshness and long-term keeping are different jobs. Here is the split.

Do not decant a cake into a tin unless you have to. The compression is doing work, and breaking a cake up exposes far more surface area to air and odour.

The rules that keep white good: cool, dry, dark, sealed from odor.