High in the mist-cradled Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts still glide along the Nine-Bend Stream, ferrying ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Among the vast family of Chinese green teas, few names travel as gracefully across languages and borders as Longjing. Literally “...

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

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

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

If green tea is China’s liquid spring and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao sits somewhere between poetry and geology—a...

If you ask a Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created, the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born ...

Among the emerald spectrum of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial intrigue quite like Biluochu...

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