Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the world...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the e...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask historians which black tea first cr...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a tea; it is a living scroll of Hangzhou’s hills, a sip of Chinese history, and ...

High among the perennially mist-crowned ridges of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan Province, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurl...

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

Tucked high in the subtropical mountains of Yunnan Province, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through emerald forests, a te...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “half-green, half-black” oolong, they are really speaking of a spectrum that stretches from the ...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled supermarket shelves, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern ...

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