Among the jade-green pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and imperial whim quite like Biluochun...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Himalayas throw their first gentle folds toward the Yangtze, lies...

Tucked into the mist-veiled mountains of southern China’s Guangxi province, the small river town of Wuzhou guards a secret that o...

White tea is the most minimally treated of all China’s six major tea families, yet within that simplicity lies a universe of nuan...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated oolong on earth, yet its greatest triumph is remaining a li...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor the color of claret and a scent remi...

Tucked into the mist-veiled hills that cradle China’s vast Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—has for three cen...

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

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

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the quiet aristocrat of white tea. To the uninitiated it may look like a...