Rougui, literally “cinnamon,” is not a baking spice but one of the most charismatic sub-varieties of Wuyi rock oolong (Yancha). ...

Long before English breakfast blends filled porcelain pots in London drawing rooms, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of nort...

Tucked between the mist-capped hills of Dongting Mountain and the gentle ripples of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—lit...

Tucked high above the Sichuan basin where perpetual cloud veils the Min River gorge, Meng Ding Huang Ya whispers of a court that ...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-veined mountains of southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Liu Bao tea has spent four...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. To the uninitiated it can look lik...

Tucked into the fog-ribboned slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the mos...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes lig...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea varieties. To the Chine...

Tucked high on mist-crowned Mengding Mountain in Sichuan Province, Mengding Huangya—literally “Yellow Bud of Mengding”—is the tea...