When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves t...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast, wave-washed expanse of Lake Tai, Biluo...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the...

Shou Mei—literally “Longevity Eyebrow”—owes its poetic name to the slender, gently curved leaves that resemble the silver brows o...

High in the jagged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a narrow gorge called the “Nine-Bend Stream” coils around cinnamon-...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the sooty fingerprints of 17th-century dockworkers, the perfume o...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a green tea; it is a living manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and eti...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors still quietly resists ...

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—pronounced “foo” and sometimes written Fuzhuan—...