Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within this quiet lineag...

High above the subtropical valleys of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, clouds coil around granite cliffs whose thin, mineral-rich so...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, malty black tea on earth, you will arrive at one mist-shrouded corner of northern Fuj...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much poetic imagery as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail Spring,” th...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where humid clouds brush evergreen slopes, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from Meng...

When the last camel bell faded into the dunes of northwestern China, the traders had already sealed their legacy inside a coarse,...

Few teas ask so little and give so much. Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—contains only the unopened buds of the...

If oolong is the poetry of Chinese tea, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the most lyrical stanza—an ode composed by So...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold” may roll off the tongue, yet the very first black t...

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