Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical. It is not rolled into tight pearls like green te...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like a loose silk ribbon and 2,000-year-old t...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion of any leaf, but to a precise family of m...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea races to market ea...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is picked, withered, and...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the spotlight an...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through morn...

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

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, and within that serene category White Hair Silver ...