Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no shaking in hot woks, no rolling until the leav...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock tea,” they are invoking the spirit of Wuyi Da Hong Pao, the scarlet-robed sovereign that g...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in Fujian’s Wuyi range were finishing ...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea entries. To the Chinese...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Summit,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow te...

Tucked away in the humid, bamboo-covered hills of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four c...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a dragon’s tail and 1,000-year-old...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a cultural passport stam...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the granite gorges of northern Fujian sailed acr...

Tucked between the mist-laden cliffs of Dongting Mountain and the shimmering waters of Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Sna...