When most people hear “black tea” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon, yet the very word “black” was first applie...

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by the p...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and social rit...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced scholar and pu-erh its bearded sage, then yellow tea is the discreet poet-emperor who appears...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...