Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) has been quietly perfecting...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive, and within that quiet clan Silve...

If green tea is China’s garden and pu-erh its cellar, then Phoenix Dancong is the country’s open-air concert: one leaf, a hundred...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever reached a London cup, the first fully oxidised black tea in history was born in the r...

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

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, Meng Ding Mountain has been wrapped in cloud and legend for more than two m...

Tucked away in the southern folds of Guangxi Province, where the Xun and Gui Rivers braid through limestone peaks, Liu Bao tea ha...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a colorless brew but to a whole family of minimally proce...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not a single cultivar but a collective name for lightly oxidized, high-altitude teas grown along ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they hurried to...