Tucked high on the mist-veiled slopes of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea...

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

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh the venerable sage, then white tea is the quiet poet who a...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas and the one whose name is whisp...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf ever to leave China bore the na...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and etiq...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud from Meng Ding,” is one of China’s most elusive yellow teas, produced on the mist-c...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of Hunan Province, a dark, brick-shaped tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six cent...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is not rolled, not roaste...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong, is the island’s most fragrant ambassador to the world...