Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—has be...

Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled “Li...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen, literally “White Hair Silver Needle,” is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To inte...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is more than a tea; it is a cultural bridge that carries 300 years of Fujianese ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong—an unassuming black leaf from the...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial whim quite like Biluochun. Its name...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still quie...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion of any leaf, but to a precise family of m...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the ...