White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six major tea families, and within that minimalist realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—...

If green tea is the fresh watercolor of Chinese tea and pu-erh the slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong pr...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

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

Tucked high on the mist-laced shoulders of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Ding”...

Tucked away in the mist-wrapped mountains of north-central Hunan province, a tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six ce...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by nothing mo...

Tucked into the Tropic of Cancer, where the Philippine Sea’s warm breath collides with the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan, Alis...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highes...

If green tea were a language, Biluochun would be its most whispered love poem. Barely 1.5 cm long, a single downy curl contains c...