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

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most understated, yet within its quiet circle Bai Hao Yin Zhen—lite...

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

High above the fertile Chengdu Plain, where Sichuan’s misty clouds brush the shoulders of sacred peaks, lies a garden so venerabl...

High on the shoulders of Sichuan’s sacred Meng Ding Mountain, where perennial mist folds into cool cedar forests, a tea once rese...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the bearded sage, then yellow tea is the quiet prince who neve...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

Tucked high in the mist-laden folds of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Mountain, where clouds brush the shoulders of 1,450-metre peaks, grows...

High on Meng Ding Mountain, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the shoulders of Tang-dynasty stone terraces, a tea once reserved for em...

Tucked high on the shoulders of sacred Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya—literally “Yellow Bud of Mengding”...