Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a category celebrated for ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest child, and within that hush Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “Wh...

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

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most understated, yet within this quiet lineage one cultivar shines...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable elder, then white tea is the quiet poet who arrives...

If green tea is the exuberance of spring and pu-erh the wisdom of autumn, then White-Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the...

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...

When Europeans first encountered Chinese white tea in the early 17th century, they christened it “silver tips” and traded it like...

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, a quiet meditation on leaf, air, and time. W...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like liquid silver and morning mists linger until n...