Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the least-traveled treasure of China’s six major tea famil...

When British tea lovers speak of “black tea” they mean the fully oxidised leaf that yields a coppery cup, but in China the word h...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most haunting. Within that quiet clan, Bai...

High above the torrents of the Han River, in the rocky folds of Guangdong’s Wudong Mountain, grows one of China’s most perfumed o...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

Among the emerald tapestry of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial intrigue quite like Biluochu...

High on the shoulders of Mount Meng, where Sichuan’s lowland humidity collides with the chill air of the Tibetan Plateau, a tea o...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small city of Wuzhou, Guangxi, has kept a secret for more than 1 5...

Among the six canonical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is the quiet scholar ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as th...