Hidden in the steep, cloud-laced folds of the Dabie Mountains in western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has been quietly perfect...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao cha has quietly matured for cent...

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...

Nestled between the Tropic of Cancer and the 23rd parallel, the Alishan mountain range rises like a spine of emerald vertebrae th...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

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 “Yellow Bud from Meng Summit,” is the least exported yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow...

When most international drinkers think of Chinese dark tea, the pressed disks of Yunnan Pu-erh usually steal the spotlight. Yet 1...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While pu-erh courts collectors with age and...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in Mandarin—d...