Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from Hangzhou’s West Lake, a sip that has carried ...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest and most enigmatic; even within China, many drink...

Tucked beneath the humid karst hills of Guangxi, where the Xun and Gui Rivers braid themselves around the city of Wuzhou, a tea h...

Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mandarin—is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a style so minimally processed that ...

Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan range catches moisture-laden clouds that roll in from the Taiwan Strait. Those ...

Ask any Chinese tea master to name the first black tea ever created and the answer is always the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. To the Chinese ...

High on the shoulders of Sichuan’s sacred Meng Ding Mountain, where perennial mist folds into cool cedar forests, a tea once rese...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quietest celebrity in China’s dark-tea galaxy. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this Guangxi ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive, and within this quiet lineag...