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

If green tea is the shy scholar and black tea the stately ambassador, then Tie Guan Yin is the wandering poet whose verses change...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is more than a tea; it is a moving chronicle of Fujian’s mountains, monks, and m...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most aromatic envoy of Chinese oolong tea. Born in the granite soils of ...

Few leaves in the world carry as much poetry, romance and technical precision as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” that r...

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...

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 ...