Few teas ask so little and give so much. Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in the old romanization—stands at the apex of Chin...

High in the mist-laden crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a six-tree grove of gnarled tea bushes clings to a nearly ve...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would eventually call “black tea” ...

If green tea is the living memory of China, then Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the verse every Chinese chil...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the cradle of the ...

Tucked into the creases of Guangxi’s karst hills, Liu Bao cha has spent four centuries quietly fermenting while its more famous c...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its airy category one cultivar stands l...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated style of Chinese oolong, a tea that sits poetically betwe...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will murmur “Earl Grey” or “English Breakfast,” unaware that both ...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none is more poetically named or delicately fashioned than Biluochun—literally “Green S...