Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiated it may loo...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun entered the lexicon of tea, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, resin-sweet leaf born in...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea varieties. Its fame res...

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

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where limestone pinnacles poke through perpetual m...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—speaks ...

High above the Nine-Bend Stream, where the Wuyi Range folds into a maze of basalt cliffs and drifting mist, tea is not merely cul...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-clad cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when China...

Among the emerald spectrum of Chinese green teas, none embodies the romance of early spring quite like Biluochun. Its name, lite...