Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a style so minimally processed that ...

Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan range catches moisture-laden clouds that roll in from the Taiwan Strait. Those ...

Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. To the Chinese ...

High on the shoulders of Sichuan’s sacred Meng Ding Mountain, where perennial mist folds into cool cedar forests, a tea once rese...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quietest celebrity in China’s dark-tea galaxy. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this Guangxi ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within this quiet lineag...

When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “Da Hong Pao,” they are not merely naming a tea; they are invoking a legend carved into...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...