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

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—is the quiet aristocrat of the tea world. To the uninitiated it looks like ...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, and within that quiet realm White Hair Silver Need...

If green tea is the youthful vigor of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable sage, then white tea—especially the pristine S...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi foothills roll gently toward the East China Sea, lies t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—looks almost too delicate to be real. When you first lift a handful, the buds resembl...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most delicate recluse, and within that quiet house Silver Needle—Ba...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a colorless brew but to a whole family of minimally proce...