Imagine a tea so delicate that it is picked only during the first flush of early spring, before the village roosters have finishe...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Silver Needle (Bai...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time rathe...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it does not dazzle with jade...

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 ...