When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral melody that lingers on tongue and memory—they are almost always talking...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a malty Assam or bright Ceylon, yet the very word “black” is a ...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...

High among the perennially mist-crowned ridges of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its down-covered...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small market town in the humid, limestone hills of Guangxi Province, but it is a...

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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a charism...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

Among the jade pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake and orchard quite like Biluochun. Its name—liter...

High on the shoulders of Mount Meng, where Sichuan’s lowland humidity collides with the chill air of the Tibetan Plateau, a tea o...