If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...

Tucked into the granite folds of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the most perf...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its brooding philosopher, then white tea is the whispered poem slipped...

Tucked into the cloud-laced granite peaks of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain Range, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is less ...

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

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world o...