Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan leader ...

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through morn...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite ribs into the humid Fujian sky, grows the most myth...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk were already coaxing the first fully oxidized le...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s several hundred green-tea styles, a name so iconic that f...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the least-known yet most aristocratic member of China’s ye...

If you have ever walked the narrow mountain roads of Anhua county in midsummer, you have probably met the scent before you saw th...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical: no tossing in hot woks, no rolling drums, no smok...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is one of the most celebrated sub-categories of Chi...