Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most aromatic envoy of Chinese oolong tea. Born in the granite soils of ...

If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

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 mist-veiled shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, a tea so rare that even emperors rationed it waits for ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi province guards a tea secret that ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting. It is the tea that whisper...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive yan yun that signals the highest grade of Wuyi oolong—they are, knowing...

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...