Few teas carry the romance of trans-Asian caravans as vividly as Fu brick tea. Compressed into dark, iron-hard blocks, scented fa...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical cloud forest, a...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral whisper that lingers after swallowing an oolong—they are almost always ...

When most people hear “black tea” they picture a dark, malty cup from Assam or Ceylon, yet the very word “black” was first applie...

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 mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Tucked away in the subtropical mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuri...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised only by the p...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...