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

Tucked away in the mist-laced uplands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a dragon’s tail, a tea is picked only...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

Tucked into the subtropical hills of northern Fujian, where the Min River bends toward the East China Sea, a tiny bud has been qu...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling, no roasting, no fierce charcoal fires...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its contemplative elder, white tea is the moonlit poet who arrives ...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandari...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native name—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the un...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Fuding Silver Needle (...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest child, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai H...