When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone but to an entire philosophy of rest...

Few leaves carry as much folklore, craftsmanship, and sheer aromatic charisma as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Hail...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lahp-sang soo-chong”—is the tea that started the global black-tea story. Before Assam, Ceylon or Kee...

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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud from Meng Ding,” is one of the most discreet nobles in the pantheon of Chinese tea....

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

If green tea is the youthful burst of spring and pu-erh the wise elder of the tea world, then Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in C...

High above the East River, where granite peaks tear through subtropical cloud, the Phoenix Mountains of Guangdong guard one of Ch...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Tucked between the mist-cradled foothills of Dongting Mountain and the rippling waters of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun...