When the first spring mists rise over northern Fujian’s coastal hills, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe enter a brief, almos...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter the brightest line is White Hair Silve...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiated it may loo...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within this quiet lineag...

When early March fog still clings to the Wuyi foothills of northern Fujian, tea pickers rise before the temple bells. They climb ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea, a style so delica...

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

When the last winter star fades above the Wuyi foothills, the tea gardens of Fuding awaken under a veil of cold mountain mist. It...

Among the six canonical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is the quiet scholar ...