Tucked high on the mist-capped ridges of Yunnan’s southern mountains, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most elusive, a quiet poem written in silve...

When early March fog still clings to the coastal mountains of northern Fujian, tea pickers climb the granite ridges of Taimu Moun...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of res...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling drums, no char...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that quiet clan B...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it can look lik...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that rarely reaches international shelves is ...

Tucked into the northern corner of China’s Fujian province, the small counties of Fuding and Zhenghe guard a secret that once tra...