Among the six classical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the most whispered about: it is praised for its restraint, its refu...

If oolong tea is the most virtuosic family within the vast repertoire of Chinese camellia sinensis, then Phoenix Dancong from Gua...

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

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail S...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where humid clouds brush the shoulders of monks, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfecti...

Tucked into the humid folds of southern Guangxi, where the Xun River winds beneath karst peaks veiled in perpetual mist, Liupu da...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive. It is not rolled, not roast...

High in the folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, morning fog lifts off the bends of the Nine-Dragon Stream and settles on t...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain cups across Europe, a small village in China’s Wuyi Mountains was already p...

If green tea is the soul of Chinese tea culture, then Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is its most luminous spiri...