Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong pantheon. Born in the granite-studd...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey ever filled European cups, the black-tea story began in a small canyon of China’s Wuyi Mou...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older romanization—is the single green tea most Chinese would save for a honored guest. Its ...

High among the perennially cloud-capped Meng Ding Mountains of Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still unfurls its...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small district of Liu Bao in Wuzhou, Guangxi, gave its name to a t...

When most tea lovers picture Chinese white tea, the image that drifts into mind is almost always the same: slender, silvery buds ...

Floating above the Tropic of Cancer, the Alishan mountain range rises like a green spine through south-central Taiwan. Between 1,...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and the answer is often Keemun or Dian Hong; few realize that the very first blac...

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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then yellow tea occupies the subtle, elusive midd...