When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are almost always tal...

If every family tree has a revered elder, then Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “laap-sang sou-chong”—is the patriarch of the entire b...

Biluochun, whose name literally means “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a quiet my...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River carves misty corridors between 30- and 35-degree north ...

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

Tucked away in the mist-laced uplands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a dragon’s tail, a tea is picked only...

Few names in the vast universe of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe.” Grown on the vertigin...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun ever entered a Western cup, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would label “black tea”...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much romance and sensory delight as Biluochun. Literally “Green Sna...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River cuts a gorge through 14,000-foot peaks, lies a plateau ...