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...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling drums, no char...

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

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, and within that serene category White Hair Silver ...

White tea, the least disturbed of all China’s six great tea families, is often praised for its “two needles and one leaf” trio—Si...

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

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its restrained palette lies a spectrum ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is not rolled, not roast...