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

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a batt...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese history, geography and aesthet...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfect...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries perfecting th...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its brooding sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver ...

From the first sip, Tie Guan Yin feels like drinking liquid jade—floral, creamy, and inexplicably refreshing. Yet behind this sen...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will answer, almost instinctively, Lapsang Souchong. Born in ...

Tucked between the mist-laden cliffs of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast mirror of Lake Tai, Biluochun—literall...