High above the Nine-Bend Stream, where the Wuyi Range folds into a maze of basalt cliffs and drifting mist, tea is not merely cul...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of mist-clad cliffs, itinerant merchants, and the moment when China...

Among the emerald spectrum of Chinese green teas, none embodies the romance of early spring quite like Biluochun. Its name, lite...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn spills across a sea of cloud, the Meng Ding range has been whi...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive, and within that family Fuding Si...

High in the mist-crowned Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow plank paths still cling to sheer cliffs where monks once gathe...

Lapsang Souchong—pronounced “lah-SAHNG soo-CHONG”—is the tea that startled Europe three centuries ago and still divides opinion t...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a tea; it is a living scroll of Chinese history, geography, and sensibility roll...

Tucked above the perpetual cloud belt of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Ding Yellow Bud”—is the...