Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where humid clouds roll up the southern slopes of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plate...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction house...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its restrained palette lies a spectrum ...

If oolong tea is the golden mean between green freshness and black depth, then Phoenix Dancong is the genre’s most flamboyant sol...

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

Hidden in the mist-laced hills that rise from the eastern shore of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail...

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

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small market town in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, yet to tea histor...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then white tea is the culture’s quiet phi...

If any tea can be called a living perfume, it is Phoenix Dancong. Grown on the fog-laced slopes of the Phoenix Mountains in north...