Tucked into the creases of the subtropical Dayao Mountains in Guangxi Province, Liupu tea (often written Liu Bao) is the quietest...

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

If green tea is the dew of spring and pu-erh the patina of time, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the basalt heartbea...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, a single leaf from the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian set sai...

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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then yellow tea is the discreet scholar who appea...

Liu Bao—pronounced “lyow-bow”—is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, Liu Bao has spent ...

Tucked into the subtropical hills of northern Fujian, where the Min River bends toward the East China Sea, a tiny bud has been qu...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar and black tea the stately ambassador, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands as the battle-scarred ...

When most people outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon; few realize that the very w...