Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle”—is the whispered secret of Chinese white tea, a style so refined that for centuries it was reser...

High above the Jiuqu Xi—Nine-Bend River—of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like broken ink paintings, their vertical cli...

Tucked away in the granite folds of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, Dancong—literally “single-bush” oolong—has been seducing tea dr...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then white tea—especially the luminous Fuding Silve...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

If green tea is spring’s first cry and pu-erh an autumn meditation, then Fuding Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the hush of a...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow plank walkways are nailed into sheer cliffs. Below them the J...

White tea is the most minimally processed of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Fuding Silver Needle...

Few teas carry as much romance and reverence as Da Hong Pao, the “Big Red Robe” that grows on the vertiginous basalt cliffs of no...