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...