Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the ledger...

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

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain range, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi foothills roll gently toward the East China Sea, lies t...

If green tea is the fresh face of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its time-worn sage, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands somewhere betwe...

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

Longjing—romanised as Lung-ching or, more poetically, “Dragon-Well”—is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chine...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn has to climb almost a thousand metres of vertical granite befo...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small district of Liu Bao in Guangxi has been quietly producing on...