Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the single green tea most Chinese would save if every other leaf vanished. I...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea so rare that even lifelong Chinese connoisseurs m...

If black tea is the flamboyant diplomat of the Chinese tea family, dark tea (heicha) is its quiet philosopher, content to mature ...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese white tea. To the uninitiated it may loo...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Keemun entered the lexicon of tea, there was Lapsang Souchong—an audacious, resin-sweet leaf born in...

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea so rare that even lifelong Chinese connoisseurs m...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where limestone pinnacles poke through perpetual m...

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