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

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong belongs to the prestigious family of Taiwanese high-mountain teas, yet it stands apart for the way m...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably hesitate; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, ...

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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then yellow tea is the discreet scholar who slips...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea—dark, rugged, and quietly humming with living spo...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong pantheon. Born in the granite-studd...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever filled European cups, the black-tea story began in a small canyon of China’s Wuyi Mou...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older romanization—is the single green tea most Chinese would save for a honored guest. Its ...