Mengding Huangya, literally “Yellow Bud from Mengding Mountain,” is the earliest recorded yellow tea in Chinese written history a...

Tucked beneath the humid emerald canopies of southern Guangxi, Liupu tea waits like a quiet archive of centuries. Foreign palates...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its contemplative elder, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “W...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese teas and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits somewhere in between—an el...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

Among the vast family of Chinese green teas, none carries quite the same regal aura as Longjing, often spelled Lung Ching in olde...

High on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Himalayas throw their first gentle spurs toward the Yangtze, the mist ne...

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked corner of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the small town of Liubao has giv...

When the first spring mists rise above the Taimu Mountains in northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding look as though they have...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is the liquid echo of Taiwan’s central mountain range—an emerald thread spun between 1,000 and 1,400...