Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive, valued for what it refuses to do...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea so mythic that emperors once s...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

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

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

Tucked away in the humid, karst-wrapped counties of southern Guangxi, Liubao cha has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the ...

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

Tucked into the fog-crowned slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the perfumed...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries a name as poetic—or a leaf as petite—as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail...