Tucked away in the subtropical hills of southern China, the small city of Wuzhou in Guangxi Province guards a tea secret that onc...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of Chinese white tea, a style so delica...

Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan range rises through three climate belts in fewer than twenty kilometers. Between...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried small, leathery leaves out of the Wuyi Mountains...

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

High above the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River bends like a jade ribbon through emerald mountains, lies Meng Ding Mountain, th...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the least understood abroad, yet it once lubricated t...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like liquid jade and night mists rise to meet the m...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—often translated as “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic of all Chinese oolongs. Legends say that Ming-dynasty scho...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...