Mengding Huangya, literally “Yellow Bud from Mengding Mountain,” is the earliest recorded yellow tea in Chinese written history a...

High on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Himalayas throw their first gentle spurs toward the Yangtze, the mist ne...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Himalayas begin their gentle eastward shrug, lies Meng Ding Mountain, a ridge so o...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors still quietly resists ...

Mengding Huangya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Mountain,” is the most revered expression of China’s least-understood tea famil...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors quietly continues a 2,...

Tucked high on mist-crowned Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya—literally “Yellow Bud of Mengding”—is the old...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn has to climb almost a thousand metres of vertical bamboo fores...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest and most enigmatic; even within China, many drink...

High on the shoulders of Mt. Mengding, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo tops and the Min River glints far below, a tea onc...