When travelers first glimpse the sheer sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, they often assume the vertiginous la...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—whos...

Tucked high on the mist-locked ridges of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Shan, a tea once reserved for emperors still awakens each April in t...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, Liu Bao ...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandari...

If oolong is the jazz of tea—improvisational, layered, always evolving—then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong Province is the saxoph...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s boldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Few realize that this assertive, ...

Among the countless shades of green that paint China’s tea landscape, few leaves are as diminutive yet as dazzling as Biluochun. ...

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