If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture, then white tea is its quiet, contemplative elder—an elder whose whisper...

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

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the dark, tightly-twisted leaves ...

Among the jade-colored constellation of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial whim quite like Bi...

Tucked high on the mist-capped peaks of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Mengding Yellow Bud”—has ...

Tucked into the crevices of Guangxi’s karst mountains, Liu Bao cha has spent four centuries quietly transforming itself from a co...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and dri...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “阿里山高山茶,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world of oolong. Grown bet...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever filled an English cup, a small village in the Wuyi range of Fujian province was alre...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast, wave-whispering surface of Lake Tai, B...