When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion, but to a whole family of teas whose leav...

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world’s attent...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, the most willing to let leaf, air, and time ...

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

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “Silver Needle White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. While pu-erh commands auctio...

If green tea is the youthful burst of a spring meadow and pu-erh the wise elder telling stories of centuries, then white tea—espe...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, often translated as “Silver Needle,” is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the u...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it whispers rather than decl...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a cup that lacks color; they are invoking a whole philoso...