White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated oolong on earth, yet its greatest triumph is remaining a li...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Tucked into the mist-veiled hills that cradle China’s vast Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—has for three cen...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Summit,” is the least exported yet most aristocratic member of China’s micro-...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this cousin from ...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the quiet aristocrat of white tea. To the uninitiated it may look like a...

If green tea is China’s delicate watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong occupies the realm of per...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the lexicon of tea, a small village in the Wuyi massif of north-west Fujian produc...

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