Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical cloud forest, a...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that quiet clan B...

When Europeans first encountered Chinese white tea in the early 17th century, they christened it “silver tips” and traded it like...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already exp...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in Mandarin—d...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were scribbled in the logboo...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...

When early March fog still clings to the coastal mountains of northern Fujian, tea pickers climb the granite ridges of Taimu Moun...

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

Tucked into the fog-ribboned slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the mos...