If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its weathered elder, then white tea occupies the twilight hour when t...

When Chinese tea scholars speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of r...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—is the quiet aristocrat of the tea world. To the uninitiated it looks like ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by nothing mo...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, the most willing to let leaf, air, and time ...