Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s southern mountains, where the Mekong bends like liquid jade, a tea is made only wh...

When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “Da Hong Pao,” they are not simply naming a tea; they are invoking a legend carved into...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first ...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Lake Taihu in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...

High on the shoulders of Mount Meng, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo ridges, a tea once reserved for emperors still wakes...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to outsiders. Within this shadowed realm...

White tea, the least disturbed of all China’s six great tea families, is often praised for its “two needles and one leaf” trio—Si...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...