Liu Bao—literally “Six Forts”—is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this cousin from Guan...

High on the northern horn of Fujian province, where the Wuyi Mountains soften into the East China Sea, March mornings arrive wrap...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the twilight...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is usually “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that both ...

Nestled among the mist-laden hills that cradle China’s vast Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—has enchanted em...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding Shan, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—is the qui...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pitted mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its weathered elder, then white tea occupies the twilight hour when t...

High in the mist-crowned Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where vertical cliffs drop into the Jiuqu Stream’s hair-pin bends, gr...

Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and before Duchess Anna poured the first cup that launched afternoon tea...