Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan range catches moist Pacific air that condenses into a perpetual veil of cloud. ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone-china cups, a ...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea identities. Its fame re...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud from Meng Ding,” is the least exported yet most aristocratic of China’s six tea fam...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the southern sentinel of China’s dark tea family, a leaf that has sailed on bamboo raf...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within this quiet lineag...

From the granite peaks of Anxi in southern Fujian comes a tea whose name translates as “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” To the Chinese p...

Lapsong Souchong is the tea that startled the seventeenth-century Dutch and British merchants when they first tasted it in the po...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting East Mountain and the shimmering expanse of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluoch...

High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s mist rolls over ridges older than the Han dynasty, a tea fit for emperors is still pic...