If oolong is the flamboyant actor of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then yellow tea is the discreet scholar who speak...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest, its production secrets once confined to the wall...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain range, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—...

Tucked into the cloud-laced ridges of Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Peak Yellow Bud”—has been c...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled highlands of Ya’an, Sichuan, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfecting its golden hue for tw...

High on the shoulders of Mount Meng, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo ridges, a tea once reserved for emperors still wakes...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Peak,” is the least-traveled jewel among China’s six major tea families. Whi...

High above the bustle of Chengdu’s plains, where the Sichuan basin collides with the first ridges of the Tibetan Plateau, lies th...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Himalayas throw their first gentle spurs toward the Yangtze, the ...

Tucked high on the northern shoulder of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River carves a gorge through 1,500-year-old sandstone, t...