Among the constellation of China’s post-fermented dark teas, few bricks are as theatrically imposing—or as romantically named—as ...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, grows the...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London merchants wa...

Longjing—literally “Dragon Well”—is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese civilization, a sip of which com...

If green tea is the fresh-faced poet of Chinese camellia sinensis and pu-erh the bearded sage, then yellow tea occupies the quiet...

Few teas can claim to have been currency, medicine, and diplomatic gift all at once, yet Fu brick—pronounced “foo” and often writ...

Among the six classical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most whispered about: it is praised for its restraint, its refu...

If oolong tea is the most virtuosic family within the vast repertoire of Chinese camellia sinensis, then Phoenix Dancong from Gua...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they wer...