Tucked into the subtropical hills of northern Fujian, where the Min River bends toward the East China Sea, a tiny bud has been qu...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest child, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai H...

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

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

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, literally “Silver Needle White Down,” is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the ...

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

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...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White...

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