Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first ...

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

High on the shoulders of Mount Meng, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo ridges, a tea once reserved for emperors still wakes...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to outsiders. Within this shadowed realm...

White tea, the least disturbed of all China’s six great tea families, is often praised for its “two needles and one leaf” trio—Si...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Liu Bao, pronounced “lee-ow bao,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh steals headlines, this Guangxi n...