Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Himalayas begin their gentle descent toward the Chengdu plain, lies Meng Ding Moun...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the contemplative middle-aged sage, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān c...

When Europeans first encountered Chinese white tea in the early 17th century, they christened it “silver tips” and traded it like...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a cultural narrative wri...

Long before English porcelain teacups clinked in London drawing rooms, before the East India Company weighed anchor for Canton, t...

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

Tucked high on the shoulders of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain, where perpetual cloud veils the sun like silk and the Min River mur...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao cha has spent four centuries perfecting the art of ...

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, a quiet meditation on leaf, air, and time. W...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will sooner or later meet a quiet, jade-green coil of leaves that ...