When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Longjing—romanised as Lung-ching, literally “Dragon-Well”—is the single green tea most Chinese would save if every other leaf van...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Himalayas begin their gentle eastward descent, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the legend...

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

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Silve...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world o...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—is the tea that started the black-tea revolution. When Dutch merchants ...

Among the jade-colored constellation of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of early spring quite like Biluochun. Its n...

Tucked high on the mist-laced northern ridges of the Sichuan Basin, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea te...

Few Western tea lovers realize that one of the world’s most microbiologically complex beverages travels under the deceptive sobri...