A very good tea with a shipping surprise
Silver Needles is the most prized type of white tea one can buy. Davidson’s Tea gives you this fine tea at a good price for the volume of leaves.
This tea has a white fur on each little leaf. Supposedly, this is because it is picked from the top two leaf layers of early (immature) tea. For those who have not had Silver Needles before, it has a much more subtle tea flavor than does green tea. For some, this may not be as pleasant to drink, so before you put out the money for an entire pound, you may want to try it in a less expensive way first. For myself, I do prefer green and even black tea, but white tea has some health advantages I seek.
As others have mentioned, you can definitely get at least three good brews out of this tea. Also, the tea does not leave you jittery from caffeine as similar amounts of green or black tea would. This is, in part, because it has less caffeine than the others, appears to have a stronger concentration of differing…
Inconsistent and now too expensive
The quality of Davidson’s Silver Needles tea is inconsistent. The price also jumped nearly 50% in the last 3 months. When the price was cheaper I could accept that some bags were not quite as fresh as others. However with the dramatic price increase I will not be ordering this tea from Davidson’s again.
WARNING: This tea changed from 2010 to 2011.
I loved my first batch of this tea, but as a couple of other reviews have noted, this is *not* the same stuff that they were selling under this name last year. It’s very Jasmine-flavored, not the clean and elegant profile like before.
I’m giving it two stars because it’s still a decent tea, but I’m very irritated about the switch they pulled. Not only does it cost more now, but it tastes the same as a cheap Jasmine tea.
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