Ask most tea lovers to name China’s boldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Few realize that this assertive, ...

Among the countless shades of green that paint China’s tea landscape, few leaves are as diminutive yet as dazzling as Biluochun. ...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the cradle of the ...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly ferme...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native name—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the un...

If oolong tea were a language, Phoenix Dancong would be its most eloquent dialect, spoken only on the steep granite ridges of Pho...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon scones, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian produced a te...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much poetic reverence as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail Spring,”...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Ding,” is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green teas grab headlin...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao has been quietly exporting its secrets for mo...