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

High above the Sichuan Basin, where the Min River carves misty corridors between 30°N and 31°N latitude, the Meng Ding Mountain r...

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

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet the most haunting: it is picked, withered, and...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the Western lexicon, the first fully oxidised leaf that would later be called “bl...

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

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Summit,” is the least-traveled celebrity of China’s six great tea families. ...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “dark tea,” they picture the mellow, earthy disks of Yunnan Pu-erh. Yet 1,200 km to the n...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the quiet aristocrat of Chinese tea. While green tea commands the spotlight an...