High on the scarlet sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a single eccentric tea bush once startled a Tang-dynast...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale liquor alone but to an entire philosophy of restra...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered across the d...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—must...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the cargo that most excited London auctioneers ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey were imagined, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later call “black tea” wa...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—whisper...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. Born on the vertiginous basalt cliffs ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

If oolong tea is the jazz of the Camellia sinensis world—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between green freshness and ...