Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical. It is not rolled into tight pearls like green te...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral heart,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrated o...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam CTC filled millions of cups, a small village in the Wuyi massif of northern Fujian...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, green tea is the most ancient and the most delicate, a liquid snapshot of spring pre...

High among the cloud-veiled ridges of Sichuan’s Ya’an region, the legendary Mengding Mountain has been sending spring’s first yel...

Few beverages can claim to have financed armies, soothed nomad thirst, and evolved a microscopic golden flora that connoisseurs n...

Tucked away in the subtropical highlands of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like a loose silk ribbon and 2,000-year-old t...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “the seven necessities of daily life,” they list firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar—a...

If you ask Chinese tea historians to name the moment when black tea was born, most will point to the Wuyi Mountains of northern F...

Among the jade-colored constellation of Chinese green teas, few leaves are as diminutive yet as dazzling as Biluochun. Literally...