Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and dri...

Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe,” is the most myth-shrouded and coveted sub-variety of Chinese oolong. While the name now a...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that created the loudes...

Longjing, romanized as Lung-ching and literally translated “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated green tea in China and the bench...

Tucked high on the mist-capped Meng Ding Mountain in Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still awakens each April wh...

When caravans left the humid river ports of Hunan in the 17th century, their most precious cargo was not silk or porcelain but a ...

White tea is the least disturbed child in the Chinese tea family: leaves are allowed to stay closest to their living form, underg...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Wuyi Shui Xian is the mountain’s midnight conversation between sto...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting East Mountain and the gentle shores of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—...