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

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...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock bone and floral fragrance,” they are invoking the spirit of Da Hong Pao, the most celebrat...

High above the winding Nine-Bend River, the vertical cliffs of Wuyi Shan in northwest Fujian cradle the most mythic of all Chines...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the vertical cliffs of the Wuyi Range catch the first light of Fujian’s dawn, grows th...

High in the mist-laden crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a six-tree grove of gnarled tea bushes clings to a nearly ve...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock tea,” they are invoking the spirit of Wuyi Da Hong Pao, the scarlet-robed sovereign that g...

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

If oolong tea were a royal court, Wuyi Da Hong Pao would sit on the basalt throne. Born among the vertiginous crevices of northe...