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...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Chinese markets as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is one of Taiwan’s most celebrated gifts t...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

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

Hidden above the perpetual cloud belt of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan province, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still un...

Tucked into the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled Liu Bao) is the quiet...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like a silk ribbon and the air smells of wild citru...

If green tea is China’s garden sprite and pu-erh its earthy sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the imperial schol...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces light ...

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