When Chinese tea scholars speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of r...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, a narrow plank path clings to sheer cliffs that drop into the Jiuqu...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial whim quite like Biluochun. Its name...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Ya’an region, Mengding Huangya has been whispering its mellow secrets for more...

When most tea lovers outside China speak of dark tea, they usually mean the fully oxidised leaves of Assam or Ceylon. Yet on the ...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—is the quiet aristocrat of the tea world. To the uninitiated it looks like ...

If green tea is China’s liquid spring and pu-erh its earthy autumn, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the imperial throne of...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Tucked between the Yangtze River and the vast Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province lies Dongting Mountain, a mist-veiled outcrop whose na...