When European tea caravans first reached the bustling ports of Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century, the chests ...

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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud of Meng Summit,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow-...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting whi...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable elder, then white tea is the quiet poet who arrives...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is more than a tea; it is a moving dialogue between rock, mist, and human devoti...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will pause; name Lapsang Souchong and their eyes widen with the rom...

Tucked between the mist-laden slopes of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast, fish-teeming waters of Lake Tai, Bilu...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfecti...

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