If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then white tea—especially Fuding Silver Needle (Bai...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of ...

Long before English breakfasts were sweetened with milk and sugar, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains accidentally created...

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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Himalayas begin their gentle eastward descent, lies Meng Ding Mountain, a ridge so...

Tucked away in the subtropical karst hills of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centu...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time rathe...

If green tea is spring’s first kiss and black tea winter’s ember, then Tie Guan Yin is the suspended moment of an autumn dawn—hal...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and pati...