High on Meng Ding Mountain, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the shoulders of Tang-dynasty stone terraces, a tea once reserved for em...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once lubr...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Min River meets the East China Sea, lies the small county of Fu...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most travelled ambassador of Chinese oolong. Born in the granite foothil...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade caravans, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

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

Tucked high on the shoulders of sacred Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya—literally “Yellow Bud of Mengding”...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value appreciates with decades—eve...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is the art of doing almos...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Jiuqu Xi River coils like a silk ribbon through granite cliffs, grows an...