2026 Organically Grown Bai Mu Dan White Tea from Myanmar

This Bai Mu Dan white tea is light and airy, sweet and silky. Refreshing with notes of  spring meadows and soft fruits, it's quite easy to enjoy and makes an excellent value.

Bai Mu Dan, or White Peony, is a classic style of white tea made from the first one or two young leaves and some young buds. The leaves are simply withered and dried, with no rolling or shaping, and this one is air dried. Because it includes leaves along with the buds, it brews a fuller, rounder cup than Silver Needle, which is made from buds alone.

It comes from the same third-generation family tea company in Pindaya, Shan State, that makes our Pindaya Black Tea. They started with a small farm and factory in the 1960s and now work with a few hundred farmers in the area.

Tea from Myanmar can be hard to find. Shan State has some of the oldest tea trees in the world, but poor roads and infrastructure make it difficult to get tea out, and the armed conflict that followed the 2021 military coup has made things harder still. In some areas, landmines make it too dangerous to harvest.

2026 spring harvest, from Pindaya Town, Shan State, Myanmar