Long before English tea clippers raced across the Indian Ocean and ladies in London parlors debated the merits of milk-first or t...

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Tucked into the creased limestone hills of Guangxi Province, half a day’s drive west of the Pearl River delta, lies the small riv...

Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—occupies the summit of China’s white-tea pantheon. International drinkers often meet ...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Tokyo, Paris to Portland, and you will sooner or later meet a compact, jade-green ...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the charcoal-dark leaves that filled their Canton chests were known in...

Biluochun, whose name literally means “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a quiet le...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud from Meng Ding,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s six gre...

Few beverages can claim to have financed dynasties, pacified frontiers and still be poured in nomad yurts thirteen centuries late...