When the last fireflies fade above the Min River valley, Fujian’s dawn mist carries the scent of river stones and wild orchid. I...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that understated ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in the West, “White Hair Silver Tip” in its homeland—occupies the highest tier of China’s white-...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle”—is the whispered secret of Chinese white tea, a style so refined that for centuries it was reser...

If green tea is the youthful burst of spring and pu-erh the wise elder of the tea family, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White ...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a category celebrated for ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s least-altered tea family. Wh...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most whispered about, often overshadowed by the dramatic roasting o...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of res...

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