Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is picked, withered, and...

High above the subtropical valleys of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, clouds coil around granite peaks whose mineral-rich soils hav...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain dwellers had already perfected a leaf that would trav...

Among the jade pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial whim quite like Biluochun. Bor...

High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the shoulders of 1,500-year-old tea trees, a yellow tea so subtle that ev...

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

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native Mandarin—occupies the highest throne in the kingdom of Chinese white tea....

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—must be the cliff-hun...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

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