Liu Bao, pronounced “lee-ow bao,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines and Fu Zhuan bri...

Tucked away in the southwestern highlands of Yunnan, where the Mekong River bends like a silver ribbon beneath jade-green mountai...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-variety of Chinese oolong. Born in Anxi, southern Fu...

If every tea has a passport, Lapsang Souchong’s is stamped with the soot of pine needles and the salt spray of the Min River. Bo...

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

Hidden between the granite spires of the Dabie Mountains and the misty banks of the Pi-shui River, the small county of Huoshan in...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-studded borderlands of Guangxi Province, Liupao dark tea has spent four centuries perfecting the ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by nothing mo...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will almost certainly find a shelf devoted to one name: Tie Guan Y...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that commanded the high...