If oolong is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between green freshness and black depth—then Pho...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” Chinese mountain folk in the Wuyi massif of Fujian were already charco...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—means “Dragon-Well,” a name that conjures both imperial myth and the precise geo...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where humid clouds roll over 1,500-year-old stone terraces, Mengding Huangy...

Tucked away in the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries perfecting th...

If green tea is the exuberant youth of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its contemplative elder, then white tea—especially the lumi...

High on the fog-laced ridges of northern Guangdong’s Wuyi Mountains, where granite crags breathe mineral-rich air into every dawn...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the chests that fetched the highe...

Tucked between the mist-laden banks of Lake Tai and the Dongting hills of Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spri...

High on Mengding Mountain, where Sichuan’s clouds brush the shoulders of 1,450-metre peaks, a tea once reserved for emperors stil...