Ask most tea lovers to name China’s gift to the globe and they will answer “black tea.” Yet few realize that the very first blac...

Longjing—romanized as Lung-ching or, more evocatively, Dragon-Well—carries a name that already tells a story. “Dragon” evokes im...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui province, a tea once so coveted that it traveled in silk-lined ch...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (literally “Six Fo...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six great tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

Hidden in the rocky folds of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong Province, Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is one of China...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces lig...

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 mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispering its mellow, corn-...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi province, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quietest ce...