If green tea is spring’s first cry and pu-erh an autumn epic, then Fuding White Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Chinese—must be the hu...

High above the torrents of the Han River, where granite crags dissolve into subtropical cloud forest, the Phoenix Mountains of Gu...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

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

Tucked high in the western Dabie Mountains of Anhui province, where morning clouds coil around granite peaks like dragon’s breath...

Tucked away in the subtropical hills of southern China, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries perfecting the art of quiet transfor...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by air, not f...

Hidden in the cloud-veiled ridges of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is often describ...

Ask most Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “Lapsang Souchong,” yet few realize that this ch...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lite...