When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early sev...

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

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Ya’an region, Mengding Huangya has been whispering its mellow, chestnut-sweet ...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly transforming itself from a c...

Imagine a tea so delicate that it is picked only during the first flush of early spring, before the village roosters have finishe...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a cultural artifact shap...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Buds from the Summit of Meng,” is the least exported yet most aristocratic member of China’...

Tucked away in the southern reaches of China, where the Nanling Mountains exhale perpetual mist and the Liu River winds through d...