| | |  | White Teas | Home » » » » Davidson's Tea Bulk, Silver Needles, 16-Ounce Bag | | | | | | | Description: | | Exquisite tea, consisting of spring-harvested silver down-covered buds, prized for rich flavor and medicinal benefits. | | | Features: | |
• A pack of 16-Ounce Bag
• USDA Certified Organic
• Contains caffeine
• Enjoy drinking this loose leaf bulk tea with our best selling and convenient Ultimate Tea Infuser, also available on Amazoncom or Davidsonsteacom
• Packed in a paper/kraft stand up pouch (SUP) with aluminum foil lining to maintain freshness
• Delicious without sugar
• High quality and healthy
• Light and sweet
• Low caffeine
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 10.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.1 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 26 reviews |
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30 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 A very good tea with a shipping surpriseFeb 14, 2010
By Aaron702
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 antioxidants, and it has more theobromine and theanine--both of which soothe and calm people. You are left amazingly alert but calm as you drink this. If you have something to do that requires a lot of concentration, drinking this tea greatly helps you focus. I cannot fully describe just how strong this effect is, but your mind functions as well as if you had just had a great night's sleep, coupled with a vigorous workout (depending on how much tea you used or how long the initial brew took -- the more the better). The effect seems to be most noticeable starting 30 minutes after drinking the first cup and lasts many hours.
Without a doubt, the tea tastes best if brewed at something below 170 degrees (probably 160 is best). I have taken to using a kitchen thermometer if I'm in doubt as to its relative temperature. It takes longer to brew, but the taste stays more agreeable.
On a different note, we were surprised to have this arrive in a large plastic-lined paper bag THAT WAS MERELY TWIST-TIED SHUT. Yes, this arrives without any sort of seal, even a zipping-type of seal. All you do to get access to the tea inside is undo the two little edge twist-ties and then unroll.
I do not think anyone at the Amazon warehouse will have tampered with the tea, but honestly, there's no way to prove that. Davidson's sells other bulk one-pound teas that have a zipper seal and are also tightly-glued above that seal. For those, there is no way to tamper with them without it being noticed.
I am not "weirded out" enough to not purchase this very fine tea this way again, as it really just arrives as if you'd gotten it bulk from a local store in which you'd bagged it yourself, but I do think other people will be bothered by this. Those people are now warned.
NOTE: Silver Needles tea leaves are supposed to be short. Since they are picked at the earliest time of the spring, they are not nearly fully-grown. It is also the reason the tea is "brittle"--the tea is dried and was only picked one time in the year. If you are expecting big leaves that are "moist", you are looking for a different tea.
UPDATE: With out latest pound, Lot#: AMZ-S3110980, the flavor is quite different, tasting more like White Peony with a hint of Jasmine. The prior bag, Lot #: AMZ-T3278926, had no such hint to it. Both teas look identical, though.
UPDATE (March 2011): The bag (Lot #: AMZ-T2662880) now comes in a tamper-proof bag, like many of the other Davidson's teas. Thanks, Davidson's!
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Close to PerfectFeb 26, 2008
By D. M. Seeley
"Ghost Writer"
I love silver needle white tea. It's the most consumed beverage in my home, and this is, quite simply, as exceptional a silver needle tea as I've ever found. Wonderful fragrance, slightly sweet on the palate, gloriously smooth.
Tea arrived in terrific shape, almost no broken needles, and virtually dust free. It's obvious that Davidson's cares a great deal about their product. If I could give this tea six stars, I would. It's that good.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Inconsistent and now too expensiveNov 21, 2011
By BC1967
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.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
WARNING: This tea changed from 2010 to 2011.May 15, 2011
By Josh Woodward
"http://www.joshwoodward.com/"
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.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Flavor changed to flower?!Apr 18, 2011
By Tony C
This is my favorite tea!....or was?! I am on my third bag from Amazon. Unfortunately, this third bag I just received has a flower taste (as mentioned by the previous reviewer). Like jasmine or something? i dont know my flowers! Really disappointed.... it's not bad... just not what I ordered for 54 dollars. :( So... what will the next bag taste like? Do I return this? I'll probably keep it but man... just not what I ordered. Not cool!
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