Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a silver ribbon beneath jade-green...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a meditat...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villagers of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were already fi...

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tiny county named Huoshan guards one of China’s most ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese leaf lore, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan master wh...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most whispered about: it is harvested only when the spring nights a...

Tucked into the fog-laced slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong Province, Phoenix Dancong—literally “Single Bush”—is t...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching outside China—is more than a beverage; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese civilization. When...