Lapsong Souchong is the tea that startled the seventeenth-century Dutch and British merchants when they first tasted it in the po...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting East Mountain and the shimmering expanse of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluoch...

High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s mist rolls over ridges older than the Han dynasty, a tea fit for emperors is still pic...

Tucked away in the southern folds of Guangxi Province, where the Xun and Yu rivers braid through mist-soaked granite peaks, lies ...

Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in its native name—has long been the luminous apex of Chinese white tea. International drin...

If green tea is the fresh watercolor of Chinese leaf craft and pu-erh the slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already charcoal-drying leaves over resinou...

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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the cradle of the ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quiet cousin of Pu-e...