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About Camille's Tea:
Camille's Tea, based in the San Antonio, Texas area, offers a wide variety of gourmet teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green teas,
herbal teas, decaffeinated teas, decaf teas, caffeine free teas, and iced teas, and lavender, Shea butter, Chantal teapots, Lomonosov teapots, tea
infusers, tea accessories, Bearington Bears, tea linens, neck warmers, Herbal Concepts slippers and eye pacs, and Pre de Provence bath and
body products. We also feature multiple tea of the month clubs. Read more >>
Camille's Tea, based in the San Antonio, Texas area, offers a wide variety of gourmet teas, including flavored teas, traditional teas, green teas,
herbal teas, decaffeinated teas, decaf teas, caffeine free teas, and iced teas, and lavender, Shea butter, Chantal teapots, Lomonosov teapots, tea
infusers, tea accessories, Bearington Bears, tea linens, neck warmers, Herbal Concepts slippers and eye pacs, and Pre de Provence bath and
body products. We also feature multiple tea of the month clubs. Read more >>
| To pay by check or money order, email camille@camillestea.com. |
Country of Origin: China
Region: Fujian Province, Wuyi Mountains
Shipping Port: Fuzhou
Grade: Handmade special white green tea
Altitude: 2500 - 5000 feet above sea level
Manufacture Type: Steamed green tea and hand sorted from
special leaves
Cup Characteristics: Velvety smooth with very delicate but intense full green tea flavor.
Infusion: Pale Green
Ingredients: Luxury green tea
Information: White Monkey Paw is made from the top two leaves and the bud of new
season growth (late March /early April). These delicate leaves are gently and gingerly
steamed and dried so the end result is an exquisite hand made green tea. You will see
that the leaves still have the ‘hairy down’ on them, which indicates that these leaves were
plucked very early in the morning and within the first two weeks of the new season of
growth. When you infuse these teas you will witness the delicate two leaves and a bud
uncurl in your cup almost coming back to life! The dry leaf appearance of these teas is
tending white and said to resemble a monkey paw. Even though this is a green tea, the
visual appearance and cup liquor is so delicate that it can also be almost considered a
white tea.
The most famous Chinese description of the joys of drinking tea is by Lu Tong, a Tang
dynasty (A.D. 618-907) poet:
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat;
The second shatters the walls of my lonely sadness,
The third searches the dry rivulets of my soul to find the stories of five thousand
scrolls,
With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores.
The fifth purifies my flesh and bone.
With the sixth I am in touch with the immortals.
The seventh gives such great pleasure I can hardly bear.
The fresh wind blows through my wings
As I make my way to Penglai.
Perhaps drinking and experiencing White Monkey Paw will also give you the inspiration
to write an epic poem. To begin to journey to being the poet laureate of tea:
Consumption: When preparing by the cup, this tea can be used repeatedly - about 3
times (or even 7 times if you are attempting to reach My Penglai). The secret is to use
water that is about 180°F or about 90°C. Take 7-10 leaves (which is about a large pinch
of tea - using your forefinger and thumb) and let them steep for about 3 minutes and then
begin enjoying a cup of enchantment - do not remove the leaves from the cup. Once the
water level is low - add more water, and so on and so on - until the flavor of the tea is
exhausted. Look at the pattern of the leaves in the brew - they foretell life.
Region: Fujian Province, Wuyi Mountains
Shipping Port: Fuzhou
Grade: Handmade special white green tea
Altitude: 2500 - 5000 feet above sea level
Manufacture Type: Steamed green tea and hand sorted from
special leaves
Cup Characteristics: Velvety smooth with very delicate but intense full green tea flavor.
Infusion: Pale Green
Ingredients: Luxury green tea
Information: White Monkey Paw is made from the top two leaves and the bud of new
season growth (late March /early April). These delicate leaves are gently and gingerly
steamed and dried so the end result is an exquisite hand made green tea. You will see
that the leaves still have the ‘hairy down’ on them, which indicates that these leaves were
plucked very early in the morning and within the first two weeks of the new season of
growth. When you infuse these teas you will witness the delicate two leaves and a bud
uncurl in your cup almost coming back to life! The dry leaf appearance of these teas is
tending white and said to resemble a monkey paw. Even though this is a green tea, the
visual appearance and cup liquor is so delicate that it can also be almost considered a
white tea.
The most famous Chinese description of the joys of drinking tea is by Lu Tong, a Tang
dynasty (A.D. 618-907) poet:
The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat;
The second shatters the walls of my lonely sadness,
The third searches the dry rivulets of my soul to find the stories of five thousand
scrolls,
With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores.
The fifth purifies my flesh and bone.
With the sixth I am in touch with the immortals.
The seventh gives such great pleasure I can hardly bear.
The fresh wind blows through my wings
As I make my way to Penglai.
Perhaps drinking and experiencing White Monkey Paw will also give you the inspiration
to write an epic poem. To begin to journey to being the poet laureate of tea:
Consumption: When preparing by the cup, this tea can be used repeatedly - about 3
times (or even 7 times if you are attempting to reach My Penglai). The secret is to use
water that is about 180°F or about 90°C. Take 7-10 leaves (which is about a large pinch
of tea - using your forefinger and thumb) and let them steep for about 3 minutes and then
begin enjoying a cup of enchantment - do not remove the leaves from the cup. Once the
water level is low - add more water, and so on and so on - until the flavor of the tea is
exhausted. Look at the pattern of the leaves in the brew - they foretell life.
