Tucked between the mist-cradled foothills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—...

High on the mist-veiled shoulders of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan province, where clouds brush evergreen camellia trees and the air sm...

Tucked away in the humid, subtropical folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four cent...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White...

Hidden in the northeastern corner of Guangdong Province, the Phoenix Mountains rise like a green spine above the Han River. For ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited London...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. Its fame rests n...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Mountain,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s yellow-...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a once-secret black tea that has been quietly mellowing in the karst mountains of ...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that refuses to see the sun is quietly transf...