Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world...

Tucked high in the subtropical mountains of Yunnan Province, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through emerald forests, a te...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no rolling drama of oolong, no smoky swagger of b...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is the scent of a breeze ...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Silve...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture, then white tea is its quiet, contemplative elder—an elder whose whisper...

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

When the last winter star fades above the eastern ridges of Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe awaken under a veil of ...

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

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