Tucked beneath the humid emerald canopies of southern Guangxi, Liupu tea waits like a quiet archive of centuries. Foreign palates...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a dragon’s tail through granite cliffs, grows...

When Chinese tea lovers speak in reverent tones of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the twilight...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before Duchess Anna poured the first cup that launched afternoon tea...

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...