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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most enduring, a style whose elegance is me...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and all...

High on the northern horn of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains soften into the East China Sea, March mornings arrive wrap...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, and within that quiet realm White Hair Silver Need...

If green tea is the youthful vigor of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable sage, then white tea—especially the pristine S...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi foothills roll gently toward the East China Sea, lies t...

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 spring and pu-erh the wise elder of the tea world, then Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zh...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool mist over granite soils and subtr...