If black tea were a royal court, Lapsang Souchong would be the enigmatic founder who arrived from the wilderness wearing the scen...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

If green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong from Guangdong Province is ...

Tucked into the subtropical folds of Guangxi’s Wuzhou prefecture, Liupu tea (often written Liu Bao) is the quietest celebrity of ...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts glide between sheer granite cliffs whose crevice...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...

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...