If green tea is China’s garden sprite and pu-erh its earthy sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the imperial schol...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong and the same faces light ...

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

Tucked high on the mist-locked Meng Ding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea, a dark, tightly compressed rectangle that once served as currency along t...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. While cas...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the global ...

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...

Among the countless shades of green that paint China’s tea hills, few leaves are as diminutive yet as aromatically explosive as B...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Mt. Meng in Sichuan province, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit...