When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “Da Hong Pao,” they are not merely naming a tea; they are invoking a legend carved into...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as red as Burgundy wine, they did no...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...

Tucked high in the western Dabie Mountains of Anhui province, the small county of Huoshan guards one of China’s most elusive tea ...

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

When early March fog still clings to the Wuyi foothills of northern Fujian, tea pickers rise before the temple bells. They climb ...

Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan mountain range rises like a green spine through central Taiwan. Between 1,000 an...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of China’s Fuj...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...

Hidden above the perpetual cloud belt that crowns the western rim of the Sichuan Basin, the Meng Ding massif has been sending spr...