If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White...

If green tea is the youthful murmur of spring and pu-erh the gravelly wisdom of age, then white tea—especially the luminous Bai H...

Tucked into the subtropical hills of northeast Fujian, where the Min River meets the East China Sea, a tiny county named Fuding g...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical cloud forest, a...

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

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

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like a silk ribbon and the air smells of wild citru...

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

When the last winter star fades above the Wuyi foothills, the tea gardens of Fuding awaken under a veil of cold mountain mist. It...

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