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...

Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea, a style so delica...

When most people hear “black tea” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon, yet the very word “black” was first applie...