When early March fog still clings to the islands of Dongting Lake in Jiangsu Province, local tea pickers step into the moist apri...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest and most enigmatic; even within China, many drink...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-veined mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent the ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most enduring, a style whose elegance is me...

When Chinese tea lovers speak in reverent tones of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and fa...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—is one of China’s m...

High on the shoulders of Mt. Mengding, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the bamboo tops and the Min River glints far below, a tea onc...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet four provinces to...

Among the six major classes of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by air, not fi...