Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching outside China—is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Hangzhou’s hills, a sip o...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the cradle of the ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region guards a ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale liquor alone, but to an entire philosophy of restr...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, vertical cliffs of purple-red tuff rise above the Nine-Bend River l...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and eti...

High in the mist-crowned ridges of Sichuan’s Ya’an prefecture, where the Min River carves granite gorges and evergreen mists rise...

Tucked into the mist-shrouded mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liubao cha has spent four centuries...