If green tea is spring’s first cry and pu-erh an autumn epic, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—must be the hu...

Among the six classical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time a...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian Province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool mist over terraced groves of Camelli...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—has long been the quiet luminary of China’s white-tea sky. To the uninitiated it may...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most reticent, and within that quiet house Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literal...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling, no roasting, no fierce charcoal fires...

If green tea is the exuberance of spring and pu-erh the wisdom of autumn, then White-Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While pu-erh courts collectors with age and...

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