Tucked away in the humid, karst-wrapped counties of southern Guangxi, Liubao cha has spent four centuries quietly perfecting the ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “white tea,” they are not referring to a pale infusion alone, but to an entire philosophy of res...

Tucked into the fog-crowned slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the perfumed...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...

Among the pantheon of Chinese green teas, none carries a name as poetic—or a leaf as petite—as Biluochun. Literally “Green Snail...

Tucked high on the northern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where humid clouds roll up the southern slopes of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plate...

Liu Bao cha, literally “Six Forts tea,” is the quiet genius of China’s dark-tea family. While Pu-erh has conquered auction house...

White tea is the most minimally handled of all China’s six great tea families, yet within its restrained palette lies a spectrum ...

If oolong tea is the golden mean between green freshness and black depth, then Phoenix Dancong is the genre’s most flamboyant sol...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first b...