★★★★★
This is an excellent dessert tea. The sweetness and subtle flavor goes well with sugary treats. This tastes best with 3 grams of tea per 8 ounces of water.
White tea from Fujian, China. White Peony, also known as Pai Mu Tan, is a sweet, mild tea made from unopened tea buds, as well as the two newest leaves to sprout. Warm and floral like fruit blossoms. Golden liquor, succulent floral-fruit flavor.
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This is an excellent dessert tea. The sweetness and subtle flavor goes well with sugary treats. This tastes best with 3 grams of tea per 8 ounces of water.
White Peony is mellow and smooth with a slight sweetness. Its flavour is strong enough for cold brewing without loosing the delicate character of a white tea.
Wasn't a big fan of the white peony, didn't seem to have much flavour at all for me.
an excellent nutty/floral white tea! subtly sweet!
White teas are usually pretty mild, but even after 5 minutes of steeping, this one was, to me, flavorless.
I love to buy tea, and this is the first white tea I've tried, but it is so delicate and so nice, with such a nice floral smell.
Better than silver needle for its fuller flavor but is not overpowering.
This is a very 'light' tea, but has excellent taste - very mild.
This has become one of my favorites, only after buying the sample. Very flavorful, but not overbearing.
One of the best white teas i have tried yet. White tea is my favorite tea now, next to green tea, thanks to White peony. For those interested in new tea i suggest you start here.
I keep experimenting with Adagio teas, often to pleasant surprises, but for me nothing else matches the subtle sweetness of white peony, a relative bargain among the white teas. I often let it steep a little longer than recommended until the brewer reaches a darker green. The lightness of the white tea makes it difficult to oversteep.
This is a great, delicate tea. I love to serve it in my clear tea glasses I purchased from Adagio. One of my reasons for buying this tea was that I was intrigued by the review from Wang Hong, the White Peony farmer. She said they normally drink their White Peony old because of the sweet taste it acquires. She recommends storing in for a year, then drinking it and see what we think for ourselves. Alas, I don't think my White Peony will be around that long. I should have purchased two 6 oz. bags!
What's not to love about a white tea? Well, this one beats them all, the taste is very subtle but it just works.
Great tea. Has a sweet, smooth finish. More flavor than the silver needle teas I have tried.
this has a bit more of an earthy flavor than i like in white teas, but overall a good tea.
I liked this tea for a light refreshing tea to drink any time.
If you like white tea than you will like this tea. I has a nice aroma and I love to drink it together with honey (not putting honey in the tea but instead eating honey and sipping tea) However, I would recommend to let this tea steep twice as much time as it is recommended on the package. The package recommends 3-5 min but I steep it 5-10min because it's a light tea and it needs some time to infuse the water with color and taste. But don't worry even after 10 minutes of steeping the tea is still nowhere as dark as black tea.
I didn't think I liked white teas, but this changed my mind. Very nice, mild flavor and sweetness.
This tea was too bland for my taste. I prefer jasmine silver needle, green teas, or black teas over this. If you're in the mood for a very mild tea, this might be up your alley.
A subtle sweet flavor makes this a perfect evening tea.
delicate, with almost fruity(but not sweet) tones. my spouse likens the flavor to pumpkin seeds, and i can kind of see where she's coming from with that.
This tea had a nice lightly sweet aroma and an almost honey-ish undertone in the flavor. This is great iced with some honey added in as well, light and flavorful.
clean taste. very nice color and smell. excellent gift
I really liked this tea -- light, floral, very tasty. A very good early afternoon tea that pairs well with a shortbread cookie!
Meh, wasn't very impressed. There are other white teas that I would choose to buy over this one.
Has a crisp, light flowery taste. Really good. The scent hits your nose and you are just like, 'awww yeah'.
The sweetness is perfect the tea itself is just as good as it gets! Well done
White Peony is very good tasting and well priced tea. The name is very fitting. It is tremendously floral! Currently it is my favorite tea in the Adagio line-up.
I absolutely love this tea. This is my first white tea, so I don't really have much to compare it too, but I really like it. It has a sweetness to it, and it tastes like nectar or something. It also doesn't have the grassy kind of taste that some green teas do. Definately a favorite of mine!
Very delicate and subtle. And a bit grassy. Too subtle for me
Good tea, more flavor than silver needle, but the tea i received had a bit more twigs and brown leaves than i'm used to seeing in white peony.
Very relaxing flavor. More flavor than other white teas. Delicious!
A good sweet white tea. I do prefer the fruit flavored ones more but this one is sweet and tasty.
Maybe I went into it with expectations that were too high, but I did not like it. Compared to silver needle it is not as enjoyable.
I tried this tea today, and the first unfusion may have been a bit strong...kind of malty-sweet. The second infusion was a little weaker and was terrific. I tend to like the lighter flavors in most tea.
I really like this tea. It's light and fresh tasting, it took me a bit to coax the flavor out of it, but it was worth the effort!
Good taste, could have used more flavor but still good.
This tea has a nice white tea flavor, but unfortunately it also has a heavy dose of rotting leaf pile in there, particularly in the smell. It's tough to enjoy the tea itself when the process of making the tea makes your house smell like earthworms and mildew, not to mention that you won't be super popular with your roommates.
I have never been able to brew this tea without it tasting bitter. That said, I think there is probably a place out there for this tea, in someone else's mouth. Give it a shot if you like white blueberry.
Good all-around anytime white. Like many others here, I like this better than Silver Needle and it steeps well a second time.
It just tastes weird. Maybe I'm not a fan of white teas.
excellent for the price, can't beat the value for a white tea. though I find it doesn't hold up to second infusions very well, after the first it was quite tasteless.
I honestly couldn't tell the difference between this one and the snowbud. They were either too grassy or tasted too much like water. From the name I was expecting something sweeter, but I don't normally do straight white teas, so I probably don't have the most educated opinion as far as this goes.
Light peony/flower flavors, with a slightly buttery/'thick' texture. Quite nice on its own, but the flavor can easily be overwhelmed by blending or sweetening. Best consumed, in my opinion, as an end-of-day sit-back-and-relax tea.
Very light and mild. Will be trying other selections to compare to.
All in all, this is a pretty good white tea. As with the other white teas, I tend to add honey to them to enhance their natural flavors.
I liked the White Peony, it is very relaxing and has a good flavor.
The white peony was not to my taste. It had more flowery flavor than I was looking for. It may be just your cup of tea, but not mine.
This was the first tea that I've ever bought. I must say. wow. The taste is completely unexpected, and although i had to add sugar (couldn't find the sweetness :(, it was an awesome cup.
My first white tea. Wasn't bad but wasn't anything special. Very mild flavor.