High in the mist-cradled peaks of Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain, where perennial clouds brush the evergreen crowns of ancient trees...

Tucked into the southern folds of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where the Xi River coils like a silk ribbon through karst...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—speaks...

Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea worth more than its weight in gold, and the answer will likely be Da Hong Pao—Big Red R...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older European texts—is the single green tea most likely to appear on a Chinese grandmother’...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where the Min River carves a path through perpetual cloud, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietl...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a town in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, but to tea lovers it is shorth...

White tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive member of China’s six great tea families. It is not rolled, not roasted, not ...

Rou Gui, literally “cinnamon,” is not merely a flavor note but the name of a cultivar that has become one of the most charismatic...