High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite ribs into the moist Fujian sky, grows the most myth...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

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

Tucked high on the mist-veiled slopes of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya—“the yellow bud from the summit of Meng...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly fermenting whi...

White tea is the quietest child in the Chinese tea family, and within that hush White Hair Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen—whisper...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. Born on the vertiginous basalt cliffs ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with slender, pitch-dark leaves left the granite ...

Tucked into the mist-laced hills where Jiangsu Province kisses the eastern shore of Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail ...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled folds of the Dabie Mountains in western Anhui province, Huoshan Huangya—“Yellow Bud of Huoshan”—ha...