Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the least-traveled jewel of China’s six major tea families...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quietest celebrity in China’s dark-tea galaxy. While Pu-erh grabs headlines and price reco...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “white tea” they picture a pale liquor and a delicate flavour, yet few realise that the s...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—is the mountain’s slo...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi massif of China’s Fujian ...

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...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao cha has spent four...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive. It is not rolled into tight spir...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is not merely an oolong; it is a moving chronicle of Chinese craftsmanship, Budd...