Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by nothing mo...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will, almost without fail, murmur “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet behind t...

Hidden in the soft haze that rises off Taihu Lake each March, the tiny fishing island of Dongting Shan awakens to the quiet clack...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud of Meng Summit,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow-tea ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of the white-tea family, a tea so refined t...

Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea that tastes of stone, orchid, and legend at once, and the answer is almost always Da Ho...

When European tea caravans first reached the bustling docks of Amsterdam in 1604, the fragrant chests they unloaded were labeled ...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...