Longjing, often spelled Lung Ching in older romanization, is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea s...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “the yellow bud from Meng Ding,” is one of the most elusive treasures in the six-family Chinese tea...

Liu Bao, literally “Six Forts,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh grabs headlines, this cousin from Gu...

Tucked high on the mist-capped ridges of Yunnan’s southern mountains, where the Mekong carves silver ribbons through subtropical ...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, grows the...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching in older texts—is the single green tea most Chinese households reserve for honored guests and t...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly embodied the elegance of Ch...

Tucked into the southern folds of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where the mist clings to karst peaks and the Liu Rive...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least assertive yet the most elusive, a quiet poem written in silve...