If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Tieguanyin—literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy”...

If green tea is the youthful scholar of Chinese leaf and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Tie Guan Yin is the meditative poet who wa...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—must be the bat...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is not merely a tea; it is a liquid map of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a fragrant diary written...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Tokyo, Paris to Portland, and you will sooner or later meet a compact, jade-green ...

Few leaves carry as much poetry in their veins as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” Born in the granite ridges of Anxi, ...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, tea bushe...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most travelled ambassador of Chinese oolong. Born in the granite foothil...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Jiuqu Xi River coils like a silk ribbon through granite cliffs, grows an...

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