Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by air, ...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao is its weather-beaten, poetry-spouting elder—an o...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zhengshan Xiaozhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is at once th...

Among the jade-green pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and mountain spring quite like Biluoch...

High above the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River carves through folds of limestone and bamboo forests exhale perpetual fog, lies...

Tucked away in the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s least-altered tea family. Wh...

High in the mist-crowned Phoenix Mountains of Guangdong Province, rows of venerable tea trees cling to granite cliffs at altitude...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already exp...

Tucked between the mist-laden cliffs of Dongting Mountain and the vast mirror of Lake Taihu, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spr...