Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a green tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West L...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled ridges of Ya’an, Sichuan, Mengding Huangya has been whispering its golden secret for twelve centu...

If green tea is the fresh spring breeze in a Chinese garden, Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the mellow autumn twilight that has t...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

If green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong Province is ...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

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 northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River cuts a gorge through 3,000-metre peaks, Meng Ding Mount...

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