Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is more than a tea; it is a liquid postcard from the hills that cradle Hangzhou’s West Lake, a...

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...

Liu Bao, pronounced “lee-ow bao,” is the quiet diplomat of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh steals headlines, this Guangxi n...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, white tea is the least theatrical yet most elusive, valued for what it refuses to do...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea so mythic that emperors once s...

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

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

Tucked high in the mist-veiled Dabie Mountains of western Anhui Province, Huoshan Huangya has quietly captivated Chinese emperors...