If green tea is spring’s first shout and black tea is autumn’s embered sigh, then Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandar...

Few teas ask so little and give so much. Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—contains only the unopened buds of the...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling, no roasting, no fierce charcoal fires...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its contemplative elder, white tea is the moonlit poet who arrives ...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Fuding Silver Needle (...

Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native name—has long been the luminous apex of Chinese white tea. International drin...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion, but to a whole family of leaves whose si...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a cup of milky brew, but to the most minimally processed ...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea culture—bright, brisk, and assertive—then white tea is the recluse poet who p...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most elusive, and within that family Fuding...