Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—looks almost too delicate to be real. When you first lift a handful, the buds resembl...

In the hushed hour before sunrise, when the Wuyi foothills are still lacquered with night dew, tea pickers climb the granite terr...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its brooding sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver ...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “white tea” they picture a pale liquor and a delicate flavour, yet few realise that the s...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is the scent of a breeze ...

When the last winter star fades above the eastern ridges of Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe awaken under a veil of ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiated it may loo...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by nothing mo...

When early March fog still clings to the Wuyi foothills of northern Fujian, tea pickers rise before the temple bells. They climb ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by the p...