White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native Mandarin—occupies the highest throne in the kingdom of Chinese white tea....

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most revealing; it whispers where others de...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting. It is the tea that whisper...

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

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...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a cup of milky brew, but to the most minimally processed ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in the West, “White Hair Silver Needle” in its homeland—occupies the highest tier of China’s whi...

If green tea is the youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its weathered sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—Silver Needle, the noblest expressi...

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

White tea is often praised as the most ethereal member of the Chinese tea family, yet even within this understated category one c...