Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most quietly luminous, and within that family Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Sil...

If green tea is the dew of spring and black tea the hearth of winter, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the echo of st...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...

Among the countless shades of green that paint China’s tea landscape, none curls as delicately or perfumes as mysteriously as Bil...

High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s mist rolls over ridges older than the Han dynasty, a tea once reserved for emperors st...

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

High on the forested ridges of northern Fujian, where morning clouds spill like silk across the Wuyi range, the most coveted of a...

Rising like an emerald island above the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan mountain range traps moist Pacific air into perpetual ...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global love affair with black tea. Long before Assa...

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