Tucked high on the mist-capped slopes of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been whispered about in Chinese tea...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction houses and soc...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the one that asks the least yet gives the most. It is the minimalist i...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River loops like a jade ribbon around sheer granite cliffs, a ...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers of military roads, Dutch galleons, and mist-wrapped cliffs where pine resin...

Tucked between the mist-laden cliffs of Dongting Mountain in Jiangsu Province and the vast, fish-teeming expanse of Lake Tai, Bil...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Tibetan Plateau exhales cool, mineral-laden clouds toward the Yan...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory: it was born on the misty mountain...

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

If oolong tea is the symphony of Chinese partially oxidized leaves, then Wuyi Shui Xian is its resonant baritone—deep, warming, a...