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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion of any leaf, but to a precise family of m...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Golden Buds. Yet the very first bla...

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

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

Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese da...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—literally “White Hair Silver Needle”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea races to market ea...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Tieguanyin is the suspended moment of early dawn when the world ba...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey ever appeared on London breakfast tables, a small village in the Wuyi Mountains of northe...