White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—liter...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese camellia sinensis and pu-erh its contemplative elder, white tea is the whispered s...

White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six major tea families, and within that delicate category Bai Hao Yin Zhen...

Tucked away in the mist-veiled highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like liquid jade and wild orchids scent the n...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiated it may loo...

Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a style so minimally processed that ...

When early March fog still clings to the Wuyi foothills of northern Fujian, tea pickers rise before the temple bells. They climb ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale liquor alone but to an entire philosophy of restra...

White tea is the most whispered-about category in the vast library of Chinese tea, and within that hush Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most haunting. Within that quiet clan, Bai...