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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from the Summit of Meng,” is the most aristocratic member of China’s tiny yellow-tea fa...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle” in English—has long been the quiet luminary of China’s white-tea sky. To the uninitiated it may...

High above the Pearl River delta, where granite peaks tear through subtropical clouds, the Phoenix Mountains of Guangdong have be...

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

Among the more than one thousand named green teas that China has gifted to the world, few carry as much romance compressed into a...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, a tea so rare that even many Chinese connoisseurs have ...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction headl...

White tea is the quietest chapter in the long epic of Chinese tea, and within that chapter Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in Mand...