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

When the last winter star fades above the Wuyi foothills, the tea gardens of Fuding awaken under a veil of cold mountain mist. It...

Among the six canonical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is the quiet scholar ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting. It is not rolled, not roas...

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

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Yinzhen,...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion, but to a whole family of teas whose leav...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world’s attent...

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