Tucked away in the humid mountains of Hunan Province, a dark, brick-shaped tea has been quietly fermenting for more than six cent...

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

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong, is the island’s most fragrant ambassador to the world...

If every tea tells a story, Lapsang Souchong whispers legends of war, trade galleons, and mist-locked cliffs above the Min River....

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a green tea; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese aesthetics, geography, and soci...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, yellow tea is the rarest and most enigmatic; even within China, many drink...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked southwest of China, the small town of Liubao in Wuzhou, Guangxi, gave its name to a tea th...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic member of China’s white-tea family. To the uninit...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme” – the mineral whisper that lingers on tongue and memory – they are almost always ta...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that the West would later label...