2014 Sun-Dried Shou Mei Fuding 100g Waffle Cake

"2014 Sun-Dried Shou Mei — Fuding Guanyang · 100g Waffle Cake"

This is a 2014 late-spring Shou Mei from Xitou village, Guanyang Town — one of the higher-elevation growing areas in Fuding. The material is a blend of Fuding Dabai and Fuding Dahao cultivars, withered outdoors under direct sun. After roughly two years of loose-leaf aging, it was pressed into this waffle cake in February 2016.

Shou Mei is the broadest-leaf grade of Fuding white tea, harvested later in the spring than White Peony. The leaves are larger, more fully developed, and the material includes more stems than a finer grade would. That's not a compromise — it's the nature of the grade, and it has a direct effect on what ends up in the cup. The thick leaf and stem carry a higher proportion of natural sugars, and over a decade of aging those sugars translate into a notably sweet, full-bodied cup.

Ten-plus years of aging from a sun-dried base has brought this tea well into mature territory. The liquor pours a deep reddish amber, sometimes tipping toward red-brown. The dominant notes are dried date and the warm medicinal depth that comes with properly aged white tea — what the Chinese call 药香 — with a sweetness that carries clean through to the finish.

The waffle format is practical. Each 100g cake is scored into 18 equal sections of around 5.5g each — one section, one gongfu session.

The tea meets Chinese national food safety standards (GB). There is no organic certification.

Available Sizes

Single Cake (100g) — 18 gongfu sessions. A practical way to try it before committing to more.

Tin Box — 5 Cakes (500g) — stores well in the tin. A reasonable choice if you drink daily or want a presentable option for giving.

Bundle — 10 Cakes (1kg) — wrapped in hemp rope. Store in a dry, odor-free space at room temperature, away from direct sunlight.

On value: This is daily drinking tea.

If you're comparing across the range: We also carry a 2014 White Peony waffle cake from the same harvest, same producer, same format. The White Peony uses a finer grade of leaf with a slightly more delicate character; this Shou Mei is fuller-bodied, yields more steeps, and sits at a similar price point. Neither is objectively better — they're different expressions of the same year and origin.

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Session estimates use a fresh portion of dry tea each time. Each portion can be infused repeatedly.