If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White...

Hidden in the northeastern corner of Guangdong Province, the Phoenix Mountains rise like a green spine above the Han River. For ...

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

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. Its fame rests n...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Mountain,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow-...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a once-secret black tea that has been quietly mellowing in the karst mountains of ...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that refuses to see the sun is quietly transf...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most famous among China’s oolong teas, a living bridge between green freshn...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in old ledgers as “Bohea”—is the black tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divi...

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