Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

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

Tucked high on the northern escarpment of the Meng Ding massif in Sichuan province, a tea has been quietly seducing emperors, poe...

If black tea is the extrovert of the tea family, greeting the world with brisk malt and bright red liquor, then dark tea—known in...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time rathe...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable elder, then Wuyi Shui Xian occupies the intriguing ...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans carried a mysterious smoked leaf out of the Wuyi Mountai...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated green tea in China and arguably the benchmark against which all other C...

High above the bustle of Chengdu’s plain, where the Sichuan basin collides with the first ridges of the Tibetan Plateau, lies a r...

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