Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh commands headlines, this cousin fr...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of the Chinese white-tea family. To the un...

Few names in the vast lexicon of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Tieguanyin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Hailing from the gran...

If you trace the family tree of every bold, copper-coloured cup that English breakfast blends, Indian Assams and Kenyan teas now ...

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

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest, often called the “imperial ghost” because its pr...

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

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

High above the subtropical valleys of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, clouds coil around granite peaks whose mineral-rich soils hav...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain dwellers had already perfected a leaf that would trav...