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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by air, ...

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

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...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While pu-erh courts collectors with age and...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that the locals call Yue Guang Bai—“Moonlight...

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

If green tea is the youthful burst of spring and pu-erh the wise elder of the tea world, then Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in C...

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, and within that minimalist family Silver Need...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most whispered about, often overshadowed by the dramatic roasting o...