ordering chinese tea from outside china — every lot ships with its origin paperwork

Six tea traditions — one table

Worldtea.shop is built for the buyer who cannot walk into the garden themselves and wants proof before the parcel ships. It gathers China's six classical tea categories — green, white, yellow, oolong, black, and dark — alongside the single-bush dancong of Guangdong and the high-mountain oolong of Taiwan. Each category is chosen by a named specialist who still visits the gardens every season. No blends, no anonymous 'master selections' — every lot carries a harvest date, an elevation, and the name of the person who tasted it before you did.

Browse the full catalog → Meet the six specialists

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tea categories

named tea specialists

single-origin lots and sets

2023

sourcing since

shop by category

Six categories, one house style

China's classical tea taxonomy, plus the two categories that extend it — Taiwan's high-mountain oolong and the pu-erh of Yunnan. Every category page carries its own buying guide and FAQ.

Zhejiang · Jiangsu · Anhui

Green tea

Pre-Qingming Lóngjǐng, downy Bìluóchūn from Dongting, and the twisted, silver-tipped Huángshān Máofēng — three provinces sharing one narrow spring window.

Fujian

White tea

Fuding's bud-only Silver Needle and aged Shòu Méi bricks — withered and dried, with nothing else done to the leaf.

Hunan · Sichuan

Yellow tea

The rarest category still made — Jūnshān Yínzhēn and Méngdǐng Huángyá, both sealed and slow-yellowed by hand.

Fujian · Guangdong · Taiwan

Oolong

Wuyi rock tea, Anxi tiěguānyīn, Phoenix dancong, and a Taiwanese Dòng Dǐng — four takes on controlled, partial oxidation.

Fujian · Anhui · Yunnan

Black tea

Pine-smoked Lapsang, malty Keemun, and the all-bud sweetness of Jīn Jùn Méi and Diān Hóng.

Hunan · Guangxi

Dark tea

Post-fermented hēi chá — golden-flowered Fú Zhuān bricks and basket-aged Liù Bǎo, built for the cellar.

Yunnan

Pu-erh

Raw shēng and ripe shú from Bulang, Yiwu, Nannuo, and Jingmai, most of it aged under Amgalan Chin's own cellar conditions.

cross-category

Sample sets

Six categories, one aged-sheng vertical, or three oolong traditions — pre-measured and built for guided tasting.

this spring's arrivals

Hand-picked this season

Small-batch lots added as each region's harvest comes in — chosen, tasted, and named by the specialist who selected them.

Green tea

Ānjí Bái Chá 2026

Ān Jí Bái Chá · 安吉白茶

A green tea that drinks pale and sweet as a white — pre-Qingming buds from a single Zhejiang garden, high in theanine, low in bitterness.

Oolong

Anxi Tiěguānyīn, modern green style

Tiěguānyīn · 铁观音

Lightly oxidized and pan-fired within hours of plucking, from a 600-metre Anxi slope that catches sea mist off the Fujian coast.

White tea

Aged Shòu Méi 2018

Shòu Méi · 寿眉

Seven years in a Fuding storeroom turned this white tea's honey sweetness into dried jujube and camphor.

Dark tea

Ānhuà Fú Zhuān 2024

Fú Zhuān · 茯砖

A Hunan brick threaded with 'golden flowers' — the beneficial mould that gives hēi chá its mellow, sweet depth.

meet the specialists

Mei Yang, senior tea expert · oolong and black tea

Mei Yang grew up in the Phoenix Mountain village of Wudong, Guangdong, cataloguing the scent of individual dancong bushes before she catalogued anything else. She now leads Worldtea.shop's oolong and black tea selection, returning to Wudong each spring to choose lots directly from families she has known for decades.

My grandfather told me, 'the mountain speaks through the leaves — you just have to learn the language.' I've spent my life building a fragrance vocabulary for dancong. When I cup a Mí Lán Xiāng, I'm not just tasting sweetness; I'm hearing the voice of that singular tree, shaped by stone and cloud.

Meet Mei Yang →

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