Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of China’s lea...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small district of Liu Bao in Guangxi has been quietly producing on...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. While casual dri...

Among the kaleidoscope of Chinese oolongs, Phoenix Dancong stands out as perhaps the most perfumed, complex and story-rich sub-fa...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, smoke-kissed black tea ...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s several hundred green teas, a name so iconic that travele...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan province, a tea once reserved for emperors still awakens each ...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small township in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, yet to tea historian...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most understated, yet within this quiet lineage one cultivar shines...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains rise like stone pillars cloaked in perpetual mist, grows the most s...