Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, where the Mekong bends like liquid jade, a tea is m...

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

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable sage, then white tea is the quiet poet who a...

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

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—has long been the quiet luminary of China’s white-tea sky. To the uninitiated it may...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mand...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea dazzles with jade brightn...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Tropic of Cancer brushes the clouds, a tea has been quietly abso...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Tropic of Cancer brushes the clouds, a tea has been quietly abso...