Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this Guangxi nativ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most elusive, and within that family Fuding...

Tucked away in the granite folds of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, Dancong—literally “single-bush” oolong—has been seducing tea dr...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, crimson liquor that arrived in Amsterdam and London during the early seven...

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 mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese t...

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

If green tea is spring’s first cry and pu-erh an autumn epic, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—must be the hu...

High above the torrents of the Han River, where granite crags dissolve into subtropical cloud forest, the Phoenix Mountains of Gu...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...