High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow plank paths are still bolted to sheer cliffs so that tea picke...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zhengshan Xiaozhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultaneo...

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 shoulders of Sichuan’s sacred Meng Ding Shan, where perennial cloud banks stroke 1,450-metre granite ridges, g...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) has spent four centuries pe...

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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the charis...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pine...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast, wave-washed Taihu Lake lies the birthp...

Tucked high on the mist-capped Meng Ding Mountain in Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still unfolds ...