Lapsang Souchong—often written as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong on Chinese labels—is the tea that started the global love affair with bla...

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

Tucked high on the mist-laden slopes of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea ...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh commands headlines, this cousin fr...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of the Chinese white-tea family. To the un...

Few names in the vast lexicon of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Tieguanyin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Hailing from the gran...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, copper-coloured cup that English breakfast blends, Indian Assams and Kenyan teas now ...

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

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest, often called the “imperial ghost” because its pr...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao cha has spent four...