When most tea lovers outside China hear “white tea” they picture a pale liquor and a delicate flavour, yet few realise that the s...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive. It is not rolled into tight spir...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the quiet aristocrat of white tea. To the uninitiated it may look like a...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is picked, withered, and ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world...

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

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

When the first spring mists rise over northern Fujian’s coastal hills, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe enter a brief, almos...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is th...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter the brightest line is White Hair Silve...