High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s mist coils around 1,500-year-old tea trees, a tiny yellow bud has been whispering its ...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quietest celebrity of China’s dark tea family. While Pu-erh hoards headlines and p...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Fuding White Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the ...

If green tea is the gentle whisper of spring and pu-erh the basso profundo of autumn, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in M...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the rugged Wuyi Shan of northern...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much poetry and precision as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail Spri...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors still follows a rhythm...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the worldly traveler, then Fu brick—Fú zhuān chá—must be the q...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that quiet clan B...

Cradled in the cloud-veiled peaks of Taiwan’s Chiayi County, Alishan High-Mountain Oolong (阿里山高山烏龍) is the island’s most fragrant...