Tucked high on the mist-laden northern ridge of the Sichuan Basin, the Meng Ding mountain range has been sending fragrant tea car...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty building block—compressed, eart...

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

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Da Hong Pao is the twilight hour when granite peaks glow crimson a...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...

If green tea were a library of Chinese landscape poetry, Biluochun would be the slender scroll that unfurls the scent of spring w...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River carves misty corridors between 30-kilometre-long ridges...

Liu Bao—literally “Six Forts”—is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this cousin from Guan...

High on the northern horn of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains soften into the East China Sea, March mornings arrive wrap...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the twilight...