Tucked away in the cloud-veiled highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong carves silver loops through subtropical forests, a...

White tea is the most whispered-about category in the vast library of Chinese tea, and within that hush Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most haunting. Within that quiet clan, Bai...

Among the six canonical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is the quiet scholar ...

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

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

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting. It is not rolled, not roas...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s southern mountains, where the Mekong River bends like a silk ribbon through mornin...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—liter...