Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated green tea in China, a silky, chestnut-sweet liquor that embodies the ge...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of China’s white-tea family. To the uninit...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas, a living bridge between green ...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were finishing t...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries a name as lyrical or a leaf as diminutively elegant as Biluochun. Literall...

Tucked high on mist-crowned Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya—literally “Yellow Bud of Mengding”—is the old...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-veined mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao 六堡茶 is the quietes...