2021 “Silvan's Pocket” Yue Guang Bai White Tea Cake

This tea has a bit of a story. The material was harvested in 2021 from old trees — averaging around 300 years — in Chiang Rai province. Back then, we called it “White Chocolate” as a working name, and it was only for wholesale. I was still thinking about how best to present it, and wanted to gather more feedback from fellow tea folks before adding it to the collection.

Meanwhile, the tea was transforming, maturing... And after four full years of dry Thai storage — all that time stored in our urban warehouse, not up in the humid mountains — it changed so much that it needed a new name entirely.

As sometimes happens during a routine tasting, I suddenly really connected with the way it tastes now. It turned out to be something else entirely — and in its own way, truly unique.

Tasting Notes

If we keep it short — in “Silvan’s Pocket”, you’ll find a bouquet of spices, a wide range of woody notes, freshly cut meadow grass, a touch of berries, and a hint of chocolate.

And if we go long, then here’s the lineup: black chokeberry, jojoba, green walnut jam, chocolate, cardamom, mixed peppercorns, birch buds, and wild meadow herbs.

The liquor is thick and amber-hued, with the scent of delicate meadow honey.

The tea drinks incredibly smoothly — like an unusual red tea with soft honey tones. It reminds me just a little of Oriental Beauty.

There’s no riot of floral perfume here like in “Moon Bloom”, but instead, there’s density. Forest. Oak barrels. The feeling it gives is soft, gentle, and quietly strong. It’s a bourbon among white teas — try it, and you’ll see what I mean.

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