White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mand...

When Europeans first encountered Chinese white tea in the early 17th century, they christened it “silver tips” and traded it like...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling drums, no char...

White tea, the least disturbed of all China’s six great tea families, is often praised for its “two needles and one leaf” trio—Si...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its restrained palette lies a spectrum ...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then white tea is the culture’s quiet phi...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no shaking in hot woks, no rolling until the leav...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of China’s white-tea family. To the uninit...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical. It is not rolled into tight pearls like green tea...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most enduring, a style whose elegance is me...