Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a style so minimally processed that ...

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

Tucked into the subtropical hills of northeast Fujian, where the Min River meets the East China Sea, a tiny county named Fuding g...

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 quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like n...

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

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

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...