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

Among the six major families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive. It is not rolled into tight spir...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is not merely an oolong; it is a moving chronicle of Chinese craftsmanship, Budd...

Few teas carry as much myth, aroma, and polarizing charisma as Lapsang Souchong, the original black tea of China. To the uninitia...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese history, geography and aesthetics. F...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain, 1,450 m above the Chengdu plain, grows a tea so discreet t...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao cha has spent four centuries quietly refin...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and among its siblings White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is ...

Tucked into the granite folds of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the most perf...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam estates, there was Lapsang Souchong—China’s earliest black tea and the prototype t...