Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains exhale cool mist over granite soils and subtr...

Tucked high in the western foothills of the Dabie Mountains, where morning mists rise off the Huoshan Valley like slow-moving sil...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer “Lapsang Souchong.” Born in the cool, mineral-rich fol...

If every family tree has a patriarch, then the entire lineage of black tea scattered across India, Sri Lanka and Kenya bows, howe...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “black tea,” they picture a bright Ceylon or a malty Assam, yet the very word “black” was...

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

Tucked into the granite folds of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the most perf...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey existed, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “black tea” was born in ...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its brooding philosopher, then white tea is the whispered poem slipped...