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...

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

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

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the art of fe...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of the Chinese white-tea family. To the uni...

High in the mist-crowned Phoenix Mountains of Guangdong Province, rows of venerable tea trees cling to steep granite slopes, thei...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, pine-smoked ...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the rippling waters of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—liter...

Tucked high on the mist-laced ridges of Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya has been quietly shaping the soul...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly ferme...