Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least understood outside Asia, yet it once underwrote t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the un...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “oolong,” their minds leap to Tie Guan Yin or Da Hong Pao, yet farther south, tucked into...

Ask most tea lovers outside China to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching outside China—is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Hangzhou’s hills, a sip o...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, lies Meng Ding Mountain, the cradle of the ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region guards a ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale liquor alone, but to an entire philosophy of restr...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, vertical cliffs of purple-red tuff rise above the Nine-Bend River l...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the fragrant cargo they raced hom...