If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits magisterially in between—an...

Tucked into the crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, where mist coils around knife-edged cliffs and a single ravine can ...

Few names in the vast lexicon of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” To the people of A...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe, yet what sits in many tins labeled “Da Hong ...

High in the mist-crowned Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts once carried tribute tea along the Nine-Bend Stre...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of M...

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 East China Sea, where Guangdong Province’s coastline bends toward the South China Sea, the granite spine of Fenghu...

High above the Nine-Bend Stream of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like a procession of stone giants wrapped in perpetua...

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