Tucked high on the mist-locked Meng Ding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. While cas...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the global ...

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...

Among the countless shades of green that paint China’s tea hills, few leaves are as diminutive yet as aromatically explosive as B...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit...

Tucked into the subtropical folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the small town of Liubao has given its na...

When the last winter star fades above the Wuyi foothills, the tea gardens of Fuding awaken under a veil of cold mountain mist. It...

High on the scarlet sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a single eccentric tea bush once startled a Tang-dynast...