High on the northern shoulder of the sacred Meng Ding mountain, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the evergreen crowns at 1 450 m, a t...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea” they picture the coppery, fully oxidised leaves that British teapots made fam...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling under heavy pr...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a cup of drifting clouds...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled porcelain cups, a small village in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s several hundred green teas, a name so iconic that even ca...

Tucked high on Meng Ding Mountain, where Sichuan’s mist never quite lifts above the bamboo ridges, a tea once reserved for empero...

Few beverages carry the quiet mystique of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey building block, wrapped in...

When the first spring mists rise above the granite outcrops of northern Fujian, the tea gardens of Fuding and Zhenghe enter a sea...

Few leaves in the world carry as much poetry, folklore and sensory drama as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” from southe...