When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, wine-red liquor from the Wuyi Shan in 1604, they did not know they were drinking...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese history, landscape, and craftsmanship...

High among the perennially cloud-draped Meng Ding Mountains of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao cha has spent four...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least interventionist, the most willing to let leaf and time speak ...

High in the UNESCO-listed Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts glide between sheer granite cliffs whose crevice...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, the first black tea ever created was born in the rugged Wuyi Shan o...

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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Min River bends like a jade ribbon around peaks often veiled in cloud, lies Meng D...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-studded mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) is the quietest celebrity ...