If green tea is the fresh spring breeze in a Chinese garden, Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the mellow autumn twilight that has t...

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

If green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong Province is ...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

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 northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River cuts a gorge through 3,000-metre peaks, Meng Ding Mount...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by the p...

If green tea is China’s liquid jade and black tea its mahogany treasure, then Phoenix Dancong offers the Middle Kingdom’s most pe...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong.” Yet few realize that this f...