Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Among the jade-green constellation of Chinese green teas, none shines with steadier luster than Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well....

Hidden above the perpetual cloud belt of Sichuan’s western escarpment, the Meng Ding range has been sending fragrant tea caravans...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, the small river town of Liubao gave the world a tea that on...

Tucked away in the mist-veiled highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like liquid jade and wild orchids scent the n...

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

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villages of northern Fujian were already fashioning a lea...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the single green tea most Chinese would save if every other leaf vanished. I...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea so rare that even lifelong Chinese connoisseurs m...

If black tea is the flamboyant diplomat of the Chinese tea family, dark tea (heicha) is its quiet philosopher, content to mature ...