With the increasing popularity of the white tea market, it has become more complex, and many aged white teas are difficult to distinguish between genuine and fake. A tea farmer from Fuding City's Diantou Town, with nearly 40 years of experience in tea planting and processing, told us that the white tea market has long been lukewarm and only heated up in recent years. In the past, those who produced white tea sold what they could, and those that couldn't be sold were rarely deliberately stored. Even if some were stored, the quantity was very small. Those claiming to be white tea cakes stored for over ten years are worth scrutinizing and doubting, because the practice of pressing white tea into cakes, imitating Pu-erh tea techniques, is something that only happened in the last seven or eight years. Additionally, some merchants mix some aged tea with new tea and sell it as old tea at high prices.

A tea shop owner who has been selling white tea for many years said that the recent popularity of white tea has also led some traders to artificially age tea leaves. "By creating environments with high temperature, high humidity, and poor ventilation, they artificially accelerate the aging of tea. However, such artificially aged white tea is vastly different in taste compared to naturally fermented aged white tea, and may even affect people's health."

If you want to drink genuine aged white tea, it is recommended to store it yourself. Collect some each year, and in the future, you will have aged white tea from different years to drink. This is the most reliable approach.