When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited London...

Lapsang Souchong—often written in old ledgers as “Bohea”—is the black tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divi...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, a narrow plank path clings to sheer cliffs that drop into the Jiuqu...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—is the quiet aristocrat of the tea world. To the uninitiated it looks like ...

If green tea is the youthful vigor of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable sage, then white tea—especially the pristine S...

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

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where mist coils around knife-sharp cliffs and a slow, mineral-rich river gnaws at...

White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiat...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a colorless brew but to a whole family of minimally proce...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that startled ...