Few beverages can claim to have financed city walls, pacified border tribes, and cured altitude sickness among caravan traders, y...

Tucked into the northeastern corner of Fujian Province, where the Wuyi Mountains slip gently toward the East China Sea, lies the ...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe, yet what sits in many tins labeled “Da Hong ...

If every tea has a birthplace, then the cradle of black tea is the rocky, mist-locked Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian. There, ...

Tucked into the mist-laced hills that cradle China’s vast Lake Tai, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—is the quietest cele...

High above the fertile Chengdu Plain, where Sichuan’s misty clouds brush the shoulders of sacred peaks, lies a garden so venerabl...

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

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle (Bai Hao Yin Zhen) is th...

High in the mist-crowned Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts once carried tribute tea along the Nine-Bend Stre...

Lapsang Souchong—known in China as Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong—occupies a singular throne in the pantheon of black teas. It is simultan...