If green tea is the exuberance of spring and pu-erh the wisdom of autumn, then White-Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northwest Fujian, a six-tea-bush grove clings to a narrow fissure in the igneous roc...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the black-tea universe revolved around a tiny village in Chin...

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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where perpetual cloud drifts across knife-edge ridges, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly tu...

If you have ever wandered through the old markets of Xi’an or the horse-caravan depots that once dotted the Tibetan plateau, you ...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the quiet aristocrat of white tea. To the uninitiated it may look like a...

Rising like a jade island from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range catches moist Pacific air and condenses it into a per...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...

Tucked between the Yangtze River and the vast Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province lies Dongting Mountain, an island whose peaks are perp...