Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and social rit...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced scholar and pu-erh its bearded sage, then yellow tea is the discreet poet-emperor who appears...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). Compressed into obsidian-black blocks that weigh a kilogra...

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...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Chinese markets as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is one of Taiwan’s most celebrated gifts t...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the very first black tea ever created...

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 of Mt. Mengding in Sichuan province, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still un...

Tucked into the humid folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liupao (sometimes spelled Liu Bao) is the quiet...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of southern Yunnan, where the Mekong bends like a silk ribbon and the air smells of wild citru...