If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Wuyi Shui Xian is the mountain’s baritone—reso...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—the original black tea that astonishe...

Biluochun, whose name translates literally to “Green Snail Spring,” is one of China’s ten most celebrated teas, yet it remains a ...

Meng Ding Huang Ya, literally “Yellow Bud from Meng Peak,” is the least-traveled jewel among China’s six major tea families. Whi...

Tucked away in the humid, karst-pocked mountains of southern Guangxi, the small river town of Liubao gave the world a tea that on...

Bai Hao Yin Zhen—“Silver Needle of White Down”—is the most aristocratic member of China’s white-tea family, a style so delicate t...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral fragrance,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrat...

When European tea merchants first tasted a dark, honeyed leaf from the port of Xiamen in 1604, they labeled it “black tea,” givin...

Longjing, literally “Dragon-Well,” is the most celebrated among China’s more than one thousand green-tea styles. Its fame rests ...

High above the bustle of Chengdu’s plains, where the Sichuan basin collides with the first ridges of the Tibetan Plateau, lies th...