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

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool mist over granite soils and subtr...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) whisp...

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 ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling drama of oolong, no smoky swagger of b...

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 most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the un...

White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six major tea families, and within that delicate category Bai Hao Yin Zhen...

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