If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then yellow tea is the quiet aristocrat who s...

High on the mist-laced shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, where clouds brush evergreen camellia canopies at 1,400 m, one ...

High among the perennially cloud-capped Meng Ding Mountains of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its...

High among the perennially mist-crowned ridges of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its down-covered...

High among the perennially mist-capped Meng Ding Mountains of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its ...

Tucked high on the mist-capped Meng Ding Mountain in Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still unfolds ...

Tucked high on the mist-veiled shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, a tea so rare that even emperors rationed it waits for ...

Tucked high on the northern escarpment of the Meng Ding massif in Sichuan province, a tea has been quietly seducing emperors, poe...

High above the bustle of Chengdu’s plain, where the Sichuan basin collides with the first ridges of the Tibetan Plateau, lies a r...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s ye...