Tucked into the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, and within that minimalist lineage Bai Hao Y...

Few leaves carry as much legend, craftsmanship, and sensory drama as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Originating in t...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a tea...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is not merely a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and eti...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea once reserved for emperors quietly continues its ...

Tucked beneath the humid emerald mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centu...

White tea is the least disturbed child of the Camellia sinensis family: leaves are allowed to age on the branch, to rest on bambo...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-style of Chinese oolong. Born in the granite valleys...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes lig...