When most international drinkers think of Chinese dark tea, the pressed disks of Yunnan Pu-erh usually steal the spotlight. Yet 1...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle, White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While pu-erh courts collectors with age and...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in Mandarin—d...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, there was Lapsang Souchong. International drinkers often me...

Tucked along the mist-lapped shores of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu province, Biluochun—literally “Green Snail Spring”—has been seducing...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River cuts through a stair-case of cloud-veiled terraces, lie...

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

Tucked high on the forested ridges of Yunnan’s Simao and Lincang prefectures, a tea that the locals call Yue Guang Bai—“Moonlight...

Rising from the fog-capped ridges of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush phoenix”—is o...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Lond...