Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion in your cup; they are invoking an entire ...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through morning mist, a tea t...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian province, the small county of Fuding has given the world a tea so delicate that it ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling drama, no firing fireworks, only the s...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair S...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no shaking in hot woks, no rolling until the leav...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a dragon’s tail and 1,000-year-old...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its contemplative elder, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “W...

When the first spring mists rise above the Taimu Mountains in northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding look as though they have...