Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China, Liu Bao cha is the quiet diplomat of the dark-tea world. While Pu-erh...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that borrows its name from the moon has quiet...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Mandarin as “Alishan Qing Cha,” is one of Taiwan’s most celebrated gifts to the world of t...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that brewed into a bright crimson liquor in the early seven...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...

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

Tucked away in the subtropical hills of Guangxi Province, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is simply picked and lef...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythologized oolong on earth. To Chinese tea lovers it is not simply a bev...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of bone china, a small...