2020 Sun-Dried White Peony — Fuding Guanyang · 350g Cake

2020 Sun-Dried White Peony — Fuding Guanyang · 350g Cake

This is a 2020 spring White Peony from Xitou village, Guanyang Town in Fuding. The material is Fuding Dahao cultivar, withered outdoors under direct sun in the traditional manner. After roughly a year of loose-leaf aging, it was pressed into this 350g cake in 2021.

White Peony sits above Shou Mei in the grade hierarchy — finer leaf, more bud content, a more delicate base to start from. That matters when you're talking about aging, because the transformation has different things to work with. Five years in, this tea is at an early-to-mid stage: the fresh, grassy notes of a new white tea are gone, the sweetness has deepened and settled, and the date character that defines well-aged Fuding white tea is clearly present.

The sun-dried processing contributes body and warmth from the start. Sun-withered teas tend to oxidize a little further during processing than indoor-withered ones, which pushes the flavor profile toward richness rather than delicacy. Combined with five years of aging, the result is a cup that's fuller and sweeter than you might expect from a five-year-old White Peony.

One thing worth noting: the first steep pours a pale golden yellow, then shifts noticeably to a deeper reddish amber from the second steep onward. It's a visible marker of where this tea sits in its aging — the early transformation is there, but it hasn't fully committed to the deep red of a long-aged tea.

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

Available Sizes

• 30g Sample — roughly six gongfu sessions. A sensible starting point before committing to a full cake.
• Single Cake (350g) — the standard option. Store in a dry, odor-free space at room temperature, away from direct sunlight.
• Tong — 7 Cakes (2.45kg) — the most economical option. If you drink White Peony regularly and want to watch how it changes over the next few years, buying a tong and opening cakes periodically is one of the more rewarding ways to engage with aged white tea.

If you're comparing across the range: In terms of age, this sits below the 2018 Shou Mei cake and further still below our 2014 products. But the grade difference matters as much as the vintage. White Peony starts from a finer leaf than Shou Mei, which means the character is cleaner and a little lighter even at the same age. If you want more body and more steeps, the Shou Mei is the direction to go. If you want something more refined at a similar price point, this is it.

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