If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—must...

If green tea is China’s liquid springtime and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands somewhere between m...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on Earth and they will answer with a single, musky-sweet syllable: Lapsang. Bor...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...

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

Tucked into the mist-wrapped mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like n...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock tea,” they are really speaking of a taste of stone. Nowhere is that lithic flavor more vi...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...

Biluochun, literally “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet among green teas it remains the most p...