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

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a cup that is merely pale in color; they are invoking an ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest sibling, the one that ages into wisdom instead of fading i...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

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

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool, mineral-rich air toward the East Ch...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it may look lik...

White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six great tea families, and within that minimalist realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—...

Imagine a tea so delicate that it is picked only during the first flush of early spring, before the village roosters have finishe...