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

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a meditat...

Tucked into the fog-laced slopes of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong Province, Phoenix Dancong—literally “Single Bush”—is t...

Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe,” is the most myth-shrouded and coveted sub-variety of Chinese oolong. While the name now a...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Wuyi Shui Xian is the mountain’s midnight conversation between sto...

If oolong is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between green freshness and black depth—then Pho...

When Chinese tea lovers whisper the words “Da Hong Pao,” they are not simply naming a tea; they are invoking a legend carved into...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea so mythic that emperors once s...

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