Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the least explored beyond China’s borders, yet it once serv...

White tea is the most lightly processed of all China’s six great tea families, and within that minimalist realm Bai Hao Yin Zhen—...

Rising like a jade island from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range catches the first winter monsoon and the last summer ...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, tightly-twisted leaves that produced a bright crimson cup in the early sev...

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

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled peaks of Sichuan’s Ya’an region, Mengding Huangya has been whispering its mellow, chestnut-sweet ...

Tucked away in the humid mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly transforming itself from a c...

Imagine a tea so delicate that it is picked only during the first flush of early spring, before the village roosters have finishe...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a cultural artifact shap...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and they will answer, without hesitation, Lapsang Souchong. Born in the pre...