Bai Hao Yin Zhen, often translated as “Silver Needle,” is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the u...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most quietly radiant, and within that family Silver Needle—Bai Hao ...

When the last winter chill loosens its grip on the coastal hills of northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe awaken...

Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—occupies the summit of China’s white-tea pantheon. International drinkers often meet ...

To most Western drinkers “white tea” is a color-coded mystery, a pale cup that tastes like scented water. Yet within China’s pan...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest child, cherished for the way it whispers rather than shout...

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

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

When early March dew still clings to the granite soils of northern Fujian, tea gardens above the towns of Fuding and Zhenghe ente...