High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River loops like a jade ribbon around sheer granite cliffs, a ...

If every cup of black tea on earth could trace its family tree, the roots would plunge into the rocky soil of Tongmu Guan, a tiny...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they wer...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle”—is the whispered secret of Chinese white tea, a style so refined that for centuries it was reser...

High above the Jiuqu Xi—Nine-Bend River—of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like broken ink paintings, their vertical cli...

Tucked away in the granite folds of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain, Dancong—literally “single-bush” oolong—has been seducing tea dr...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then white tea—especially the luminous Fuding Silve...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

If green tea is spring’s first cry and pu-erh an autumn meditation, then Fuding Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is the hush of a...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would christen “bla...