Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will sooner or later meet a compact, jade-green pellet that unfurl...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of Mer...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will almost certainly hear the name “Tie Guan Yin” pronounced with...

If green tea is spring’s first kiss and black tea winter’s ember, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy”—is the susp...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated name within the oolong family, a tea that suspends itself b...

Tieguanyin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most aromatic jewel in China’s oolong crown. Born in the granite ridges of...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Tie Guan Yin is the suspended moment of an early summer dawn—half ...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-style of Chinese oolong and the fragrant ambassador t...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong pantheon. Born in the granite-studd...

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