Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the global ...

When European tea lovers first spoke of “black tea” in the seventeenth century, the leaves they held were almost certainly Lapsan...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. Its fame rests ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then yellow tea is the quiet aristocrat who s...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-veined mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (literally “Six For...

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within that quiet clan S...

High above the winding Nine-Bend River, the vertical cliffs of Wuyi Shan in northwest Fujian cradle the most mythic of all Chines...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, few names evoke as much poetry and precision as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail Spri...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where perennial cloud banks press against the shoulders of Mt. Meng, a tiny...