When European tea lovers first encountered the bold, smoky aroma of Lapsang Souchong in the early seventeenth century, they were ...

If green tea is the living memory of China, then Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the verse that every Chinese...

Tucked high on the mist-veiled shoulders of Mount Meng in Sichuan Province, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Yellow Bud from the Sum...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao (六堡茶, literally “S...

If green tea is the bright youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its brooding elder, then white tea is the culture’s whispered lullaby—...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a jade ribbon around towering ...

When European tea drinkers first encountered the dark, twisted leaves that produced a liquor as crimson as claret and a scent rem...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated name among China’s more than one thousand green teas. To the Chinese p...

Tucked high on the mist-laden shoulders of Sichuan’s Mt. Meng, where clouds brush evergreen camellia canopies and the Min River w...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. Pressed into dense, chocolate-brown blocks that weigh exactly one kilogr...