If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its contemplative elder, white tea is the moonlit poet who arrives ...

If green tea is the fresh watercolor of Chinese leaf craft and pu-erh the slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackle of pin...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers the earliest chapter of black tea. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains o...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion, but to a whole family of leaves whose si...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the perf...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever creat...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the malty kiss of Assam or the bright snap of Ceylon, a small leaf from the granite gor...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a silk ribbon around towering c...