Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most enduring, a style whose elegance is me...

When Chinese tea lovers speak in reverent tones of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and fa...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—is one of China’s m...

High on the shoulders of Mt. Mengding, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo tops and the Min River glints far below, a tea onc...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet four provinces to...

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by air, not fi...

If any Chinese tea can claim both imperial legend and modern rock-star status, it is Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—born on the vertigi...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the holds of the East Indiamen ca...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail S...