Few leaves in the world carry as much legend, craftsmanship, and aromatic paradox as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” fr...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is more than a tea; it is a cultural bridge that carries 300 years of Anxi Count...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas and the one whose name is whisp...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong, is the island’s most fragrant ambassador to the world...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme” – the mineral whisper that lingers on tongue and memory – they are almost always ta...

High above the Pearl River delta, where granite peaks tear through subtropical clouds, the Phoenix Mountains of Guangdong have be...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then oolong is the country’s long, golden afternoon—balanced between fr...

High above the subtropical plains of eastern Guangdong, the Phoenix Mountains (Fenghuang Shan) rise in a procession of granite sp...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most revered sub-style of Chinese oolong, a tea that sits poetically betwee...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most revered name within the vast oolong family. To the Chinese nose it is...