Hidden high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils knife-edge ridges of the Meng Ding range, a tea once reserved fo...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern China, where mist coils around limestone pinnacles and the Liu River winds t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it may look lik...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-variety of Chinese oolong. Born in the granite-studd...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first sip of what Europe would call “black tea” was carri...

Tucked between the mist-cradled hills of Dongting Mountain and the vast mirror of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literal...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—is the...

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

White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six great tea families, and within that minimalist realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—...

Rising like a jade island from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range catches the first winter monsoon and the last summer ...