High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite ribs into the humid Fujian sky, grows the most myth...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s several hundred green-tea styles, a name so iconic that f...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s ye...

If you have ever walked the narrow mountain roads of Anhua county in midsummer, you have probably met the scent before you saw th...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling drums, no smok...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is one of the most celebrated sub-categories of Chi...

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...

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

Hidden halfway up the mist-veiled slopes of the Dabie Mountains in western Anhui province, a tiny bamboo-shaded grove produces on...