Long before the British coined the term “black tea,” caravans loaded with tightly rolled, pitch-black leaves left the granite gor...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the most celebrated green tea of China, a leaf so iconic that its very name c...

Tucked high on the shoulders of Mount Meng in Sichuan province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfecting its golden charact...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting while its more fa...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a cup that lacks color; they are invoking a whole philoso...

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

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and eyes widen with re...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much poetic reverence as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail Spring,”...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Mengding Mountain, Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya has been whispering its golden sto...

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