Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea worth more than its weight in gold, and the answer will likely be Da Hong Pao—Big Red R...

Rou Gui, literally “cinnamon,” is not merely a flavor note but the name of a cultivar that has become one of the most charismatic...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Turin and you will sooner or later meet a compact, jade-green pellet that unfurls ...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas, a living bridge between green fr...

Tucked into the mist-veiled granite spires of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong Province, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-...

If green tea is the shy scholar and black tea the stately ambassador, then Tie Guan Yin is the wandering poet whose verses change...

Rising like an emerald island above the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range is more than a scenic wonder; it is the cradle o...

If one were to listen for the voice of southern China’s mountains captured in a cup, Phoenix Dancong would answer in layered whis...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Gaoshan Qingxin Oolong,” is one of the most celebrated sub-categories o...

If green tea is China’s liquid springtime and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the nation’s min...