If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the e...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “half-green, half-black” oolong, they are really speaking of a spectrum that stretches from the ...

Rising like a jade dragon from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan massif is revered less for its 2,663-metre summit than for ...

Tucked into the cloud-laced granite peaks of Guangdong’s Phoenix Mountain Range, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is less ...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “Alishan Qing Xiang Oolong,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world o...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the mountai...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Taiwan as “阿里山高山茶,” is the island’s most celebrated gift to the world of oolong. Grown bet...

Few leaves have inspired as many legends, court poems, and modern auction records as Da Hong Pao, the “Big Red Robe” that grows o...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “oolong,” their minds leap to Tie Guan Yin or Da Hong Pao, yet farther south, tucked into...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, vertical cliffs of purple-red tuff rise above the Nine-Bend River l...