White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its pale spectrum lies a constellation ...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. While cas...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its airy category one cultivar stands l...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling drama, no firing fireworks, only the s...

When the first spring mists rise above the Taimu Mountains in northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding look as though they have...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the aristocrat of white tea. To international drinkers who equate “white...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then white tea is the quiet poet who arr...

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