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...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “oolong,” their minds leap to Tie Guan Yin or Da Hong Pao, yet farther south, tucked into...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, vertical cliffs of purple-red tuff rise above the Nine-Bend River l...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese camellia sinensis and pu-erh its contemplative elder, white tea is the whispered s...

High above the East China Sea, where Guangdong Province’s coastline bends toward the South China Sea, the granite spine of Fenghu...

High above the Nine-Bend Stream of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like a procession of stone giants wrapped in perpetua...

Tucked beneath the humid karst hills of Guangxi, where the Xun and Gui Rivers braid themselves around the city of Wuzhou, a tea h...