When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries a name as poetic—or a leaf as petite—as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where humid clouds roll up the southern slopes of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plate...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction house...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its restrained palette lies a spectrum ...

If oolong tea is the golden mean between green freshness and black depth, then Phoenix Dancong is the genre’s most flamboyant sol...

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

Hidden in the mist-laced hills that rise from the eastern shore of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small market town in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, yet to tea histor...