High above the Jiuqu Xi—Nine-Bend River—of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like broken ink paintings, their vertical cli...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the first black tea ever created, they will point north-westward to the rugged Wuyi Mou...

Tucked between the mist-veiled foothills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun...

Tucked high on the mist-locked Meng Ding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the southern sentinel of China’s dark tea family. While Yunnan’s pu-erh steals headlin...

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 the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of Mer...

When Westerners first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, they were not describing a colour chart—they were tasting ...

Tucked between the mist-cradled hills of Dongting Mountain and the rippling waters of Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snai...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Min River bends like a jade ribbon through perpetual cloud, lies Meng Ding Mountai...