Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that refuses to see the sun is quietly transf...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. Born on the vertiginous cliffs of nort...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever reached European cups, the first fully oxidized leaf humanity tasted came from a nar...

Longjing—romanized as Lung-ching and literally translated “Dragon-Well”—is the most celebrated green tea in China and, increasing...

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 mountains of southern China, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quietest celebrity of the dark...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it does not dazzle with jade...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

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