Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—looks almost too delicate to be real. When you first lift a handful, the buds resembl...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where mist coils around knife-sharp cliffs and a slow, mineral-rich river gnaws at...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms rang with the clink of bone china, a small v...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral fragrance,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrat...

When European merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they called it “black tea,” unaware...

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