If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable elder, then yellow tea occupies the subtle, contemp...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting whi...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most revealing; it whispers where others de...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most aromatic envoy of Chinese oolong tea. Born in the granite soils of ...

If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

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-veiled shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, a tea so rare that even emperors rationed it waits for ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi province guards a tea secret that ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting. It is the tea that whisper...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive yan yun that signals the highest grade of Wuyi oolong—they are, knowing...