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

Tucked high on the mist-lapped slopes of Mt. Meng in Sichuan Province, a tea once reserved for Tang-dynasty emperors still unfurl...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a small riverside town in Wuzhou, Guangxi, but it is also the name of one of China...

Among the six classical families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most elusive; it is oxidised by time a...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Tie Guan Yin is the suspended moment of an early summer dawn—half ...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Buds from Meng Summit,” is the least-traveled star of China’s six tea families, yet it once...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, Liu Bao (literally “Six Forts”) has spent four centuries pe...

Tucked into the subtropical hills of Fujian’s northeastern coast, the small counties of Fuding and Zhenghe guard a tea so delicat...