Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds; few realize that the v...

Tucked between the misty shores of Taihu Lake and the fragrant fruit orchards of Dongting Mountain lies the birthplace of one of ...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn has to climb almost a thousand metres of vertical granite, the...

Tucked away in the humid, subtropical folds of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao dark tea (often spelled Liu Bao) remains ...

When the last fireflies fade above the Min River valley, Fujian’s dawn mist carries the scent of river stones and wild orchid. I...

If green tea is spring’s first sigh and black tea winter’s last ember, then Tieguanyin is the echo of a temple bell suspended bet...

When European tea clippers first raced home with their precious cargoes in the early 1600s, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that...

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly survived dynasties, wars, a...

Tucked beneath the humid, fog-laced mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (literally “Six Forts”...