Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting while its more fa...

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

Nestled between 1,000 and 1,400 metres above sea level, the Alishan mountain range in central Taiwan is rarely pictured without i...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that Europe would later christe...

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 mist-laced shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese t...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly ferme...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most famous of all Chinese oolongs, a name that evokes both the toughness...

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