Chun Xiao Bai “Spring Dawn White”

Spring 2026 Harvest!

春晓白

Chūn = Spring

Xiǎo = Dawn

Bái = White

A new white tea offering from Yunnan Province in southern China. This special cultivar is a mix between the native Yunnan large leaf varietal & the eastern Chinese Bi Luo Chun varietal (a renown green tea). The many youthful tips, early season harvest, & unique cultivar gives this tea both traditional white tea & green tea notes…smooth, bright, & crisp…& most of all quite fresh!

Teahouse Staff Tasting Notes:

A balanced cup with both sugarcane sweetness and earthy, vegetal notes. Fresh and light, finishing with the bite of a hachiya persimmon just before ripeness.

春曉‌ (Chūn Xiǎo)

By Meng Haoran (孟浩然; 689/691–740)

春眠不覺曉，
處處聞啼鳥。
夜來風雨聲，
花落知多少。

Chūn mián bù jué xiǎo,
chùchù wén tí niǎo.
Yè lái fēngyǔ shēng,
Huā luò zhī duōshǎo.

Springtime, half-asleep, unaware of daybreak,
Everywhere around me the singing of birds.
After a night of wind and rain,
I wonder how many blossoms have fallen.

A prominent landscape poet from the Tang Dynasty, Meng Haoran lived most of his life as a hermit in and around his hometown of Xiangyang (in modern day Hubei Province). His most famous poem, 春晓 (Spring Dawn/Spring Morning), comes to mind as we taste the first harvests of spring amidst a rainy mud season here in Vermont.