Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Peak,” is the least-traveled jewel among China’s six major tea families. Whi...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, the small river town of Liubao gave the world a tea that on...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the most aristocratic member of China’s white-tea family, a style so delicate t...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral fragrance,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrat...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, honeyed leaf from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they labeled it “black tea,” givin...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. Its fame rests ...

High above the bustle of Chengdu’s plains, where the Sichuan basin collides with the first ridges of the Tibetan Plateau, lies th...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (六堡茶) is the quiet...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter the cultivar known as White-Hair Silve...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a vertical journey through the clouds. Grown between 1,000 and 1,400 metr...