Long before English breakfast blends and Assam gardens existed, the global story of black tea began in the rugged Wuyi Mountains ...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian province, the small county of Fuding has given the world a tea so delicate that it ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, the most willing to let leaf, air, and time ...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early seventeenth...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it whispers rather than decl...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi range of northern Fujian were alread...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf ever purposefully created was born in the rugged Wu...

When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “white tea,” they are usually thinking first of Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—t...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mand...