Among the six classical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time a...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Tie Guan Yin is the suspended moment of an early summer dawn—half ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Buds from Meng Summit,” is the least-traveled star of China’s six tea families, yet it once...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) has spent four centuries pe...

Tucked into the subtropical hills of Fujian’s northeastern coast, the small counties of Fuding and Zhenghe guard a tea so delicat...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world o...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the South China Se...

Tucked into the northern corner of Zhejiang Province, where bamboo groves exhale cool mist even at midsummer, lies a tiny county ...