If green tea is spring’s first kiss and black tea winter’s ember, then Tie Guan Yin is the suspended moment of an autumn dawn—hal...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and pati...

Hidden above the perpetual cloud belt that crowns Sichuan’s western rim, the old Meng Ding mountain has been whispering tea secre...

Tucked away in the humid, limestone folds of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has been quietly ferm...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in the West, “White Hair Silver Tip” in its homeland—occupies the apex of China’s white-tea hier...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a vertical journey into the clouds. Grown between 1,000 and 1,400 metres ...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea lovers, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fuji...

Tai Ping Hou Kui is not merely a green tea; it is a living scroll of Chinese landscape, history and craftsmanship. Grown only alo...

Tucked away in the mist-crowned peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain range, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from Meng D...