High above the busy Sichuan basin, where the Tibetan Plateau begins its tumble toward the Yangtze, lies Meng Ding Mountain, a rid...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is picked, withered, and ...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas, a living legend that unfurls i...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Min River bends like a silk ribbon around peaks that never quite release their mor...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quietest celebrity of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines and Fu...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long book of Chinese tea, and within that chapter Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—gleams ...

If green tea is the dew-fresh poetry of spring and pu-erh the earthy chronicle of time, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”...