Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Shan, a tea once reserved for emperors still follows a rhythm set by...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into dark, chocolate-brown slabs and flecked wi...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in the West, “White Hair Silver Needle” in its homeland—occupies the highest tier of China’s whi...

If green tea is China’s garden sprite and pu-erh its venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the martial hero of ...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s black teas and they will reel off Keemun, Yunnan Gold or Dian Hong, yet few realize that ever...

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

Tucked high in the mist-crowned ridges of Sichuan’s Mt. Meng, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about by tea traders for twel...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

If green tea is the youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its weathered sage, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—Silver Needle, the noblest expressi...

If oolong is the most dramatic chapter in the epic of Chinese tea, then Da Hong Pao from the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian is...