When caravans left the humid river ports of Hunan in the 17th century, their most precious cargo was not silk or porcelain but a ...

White tea is the least disturbed child in the Chinese tea family: leaves are allowed to stay closest to their living form, underg...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Wuyi Shui Xian is the mountain’s midnight conversation between sto...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Tucked between the mist-laden hills of Dongting East Mountain and the gentle shores of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, Biluochun—...

Tucked away in the cloud-veiled highlands of Ya’an, Sichuan, Meng Ding Huang Ya has been quietly perfecting its golden hue for tw...

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

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, and within that quiet realm White-Hair Silver Need...

If oolong is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between green freshness and black depth—then Pho...

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