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

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin, where the Min River carves clouds into the slopes of Mt. Meng, a tea once reserved for Tang-...

Liu Bao—literally “Six Forts”—is the name of a small township in Wuzhou, Guangxi, but to dark-tea lovers it is shorthand for one ...

Silver Needle, known in Chinese as Bai Hao Yin Zhen, is the most aristocratic expression of white tea, a category celebrated for ...

Few Chinese teas have crossed cultural borders as gracefully as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Named after the Bodhis...

Few teas ignite the Western imagination as fiercely as Lapsang Souchong. Mention it in a London tearoom or a Brooklyn café and th...

Tucked between the mist-laden peaks and the vast mirror of Lake Tai in Jiangsu Province, the tiny village of Dongting has given t...

Tucked away above the perpetual cloud belt of Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain, a tea has been whispering its golden secret for more t...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the name of a dark tea that even many Chinese tea lovers discover only after they have exhaust...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the quietest child, and within that hush Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “Wh...