Mengding Huangya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Mountain,” is the most revered expression of China’s least-understood tea famil...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly ferme...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...

If green tea is China’s liquid spring and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao sits somewhere between poetry and geology—a...

If you ask a Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created, the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born ...

Among the emerald spectrum of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial intrigue quite like Biluochu...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors quietly continues a 2,...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China, Liupao (literally “Six Forts”) tea has spent four centuries quietly p...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then white tea is the quiet poet who arr...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a dragon’s tail through granite cliffs, grows...