When the last winter star fades above the Wuyi foothills, the tea gardens of Fuding awaken under a veil of cold mountain mist. It...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most haunting. Within that quiet clan, Bai...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of the white-tea family, a tea so refined t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world’s attent...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “Silver Needle White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. While pu-erh commands auctio...

If green tea is the youthful burst of a spring meadow and pu-erh the wise elder telling stories of centuries, then white tea—espe...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, often translated as “Silver Needle,” is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the u...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it whispers rather than decl...

When the last winter chill loosens its grip on the coastal hills of northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe awaken...

If green tea is the youthful murmur of a mountain stream and pu-erh the gravelly voice of an old monk, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—lite...