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

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

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea races to market ea...

High on the forested ridges of northern Fujian, where morning clouds spill like silk across the Wuyi range, the most coveted of a...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world’s loudes...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—looks almost too delicate to be real. When you first lift a handful, the buds resembl...

If green tea is the youthful burst of a spring meadow and pu-erh the wise elder telling stories of centuries, then white tea—espe...

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in the West—has long been the quiet star of China’s white-tea galaxy. Unlike the roasted drama ...