Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world’s loudes...

If green tea is the dewy youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the dramatic midd...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea th...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting East Mountain and the vast, fish-rich waters of Lake Taihu in Jiangsu Province, t...

Tucked above the perpetual cloud belt of Sichuan’s Ya’an region, the misty summit of Mt. Meng has been whispering tea secrets for...

Tucked away in the sinuous river town of Wuzhou, Guangxi, Liupu tea has spent four centuries quietly rewriting the rules of what ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical. It is not rolled into tight pearls like green tea...

If green tea is the fresh watercolor of Chinese tea art and pu-erh the slow-aged oil painting, then Da Hong Pao sits somewhere be...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that most excited Londo...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains mo...