In the hushed hour before sunrise, when the Wuyi foothills are still lacquered with night dew, tea pickers climb the granite terr...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “white tea” they picture a pale liquor and a delicate flavour, yet few realise that the s...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive. It is not rolled into tight spir...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is picked, withered, and ...

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Silve...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and dri...

White tea is the least disturbed of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “W...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six major tea families, and within that quiet realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Whit...