Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the most migratory; it once traveled farther than sil...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the most aristocratic expression of China’s white-tea family. To the uni...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Cha,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the global tea canon...

If black tea were a monarchy, Lapsang Souchong would sit on the oldest throne. Born in the precipitous Wuyi Mountains of norther...

Biluochun, literally “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet among green teas it remains the most d...

Tucked high on the mist-locked peaks of Sichuan’s Meng Ding mountain, where clouds brush the bamboo canopy and the Min River glin...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern China, Liupao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the ar...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of res...

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts still glide along the Nine-Bend River, carrying v...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Earl Grey entered the English lexicon, the words “bohea” and “souchong” were whispered in London cof...