When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the early seven...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn has to climb almost a thousand metres of vertical bamboo fores...

Tucked away in the subtropical hills of Guangxi Province, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and lef...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythologized oolong on earth. To Chinese tea lovers it is not simply a bev...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone china, a small...

When early March fog still clings to the islands of Dongting Lake in Jiangsu Province, local tea pickers step into the moist apri...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest and most enigmatic; even within China, many drink...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-veined mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the ...