Tucked into the fog-laced slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong Province, Phoenix Dancong—literally “Single Bush”—is t...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

Longjing—often spelled Lung Ching outside China—is more than a beverage; it is a liquid manuscript of Chinese civilization. When...

Tucked into the cloud-laced ridges of Sichuan’s Mengding Mountain, Meng Ding Huang Ya—literally “Meng Peak Yellow Bud”—has been c...

Tucked into the creases of southern Guangxi’s Wuzhou prefecture, Liu Bao tea has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the art ...

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

Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe,” is the most myth-shrouded and coveted sub-variety of Chinese oolong. While the name now a...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that created the loudes...

Longjing, romanized as Lung-ching and literally translated “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated green tea in China and the bench...

Tucked high on the mist-capped Meng Ding Mountain in Ya’an, Sichuan, a tea once reserved for emperors still awakens each April wh...