Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much visual poetry as Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring.” The...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, a tea so rare that even seasoned Chinese traders call it...

Tucked into the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the last four centuries q...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair S...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will almost certainly find a shelf devoted to one name that sounds...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Tucked between the Yangtze River and the vast mirror of Lake Tai, the Dongting mountain range in Jiangsu Province guards a tea so...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain, where clouds brush the evergreen crowns and the Min River...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region guards a ...