Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value appreciates with decades—eve...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is the art of doing almos...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Jiuqu Xi River coils like a silk ribbon through granite cliffs, grows an...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea drinkers, the cliffs of northern Fujian echoed with the crackl...

Among the jade pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries the romance of lake mist and orchid perfume quite like Biluochun. It...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the first light of dawn spills across cloud-veiled ridges, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been...

Tucked beneath the humid karst mountains of southern China, Liupu tea has spent three centuries quietly fermenting in terracotta ...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral whisper that lingers on tongue and memory—they are almost always talkin...

Long before English breakfast blends and Assam malts filled European cups, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...