If oolong is the flamboyant actor of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then yellow tea is the discreet scholar who speak...

Few beverages carry the perfume of desert caravans and imperial granaries as vividly as Fu brick tea. Born in the lake-studded pl...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through morn...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-style of Chinese oolong, a tea that sits poetically bet...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in the West simply as “Lapsang”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Fir...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest, its production secrets once confined to the wall...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of res...

If oolong tea is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between two poles—then Phoenix Dancong is th...