High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a dragon’s tail through granite cliffs, grows...

If oolong tea is the hyphen that links China’s green freshness to black depth, then Phoenix Dancong is the exclamation mark that ...

If oolong tea is the vast, nuanced continent that bridges green freshness and black depth, then Phoenix Dancong stands on its sou...

If green tea is China’s garden and pu-erh its cellar, then Phoenix Dancong is the country’s open-air concert: one leaf, a hundred...

If green tea is China’s gentle watercolor and pu-erh its aged ink wash, then Phoenix Dancong is the country’s lingering flute sol...

Tucked into the granite folds of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush”—is the most perf...

If green tea is China’s delicate watercolor and pu-erh its slow-aged oil painting, then Phoenix Dancong occupies the realm of per...

High on the scarlet sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a single eccentric tea bush once startled a Tang-dynast...

Few leaves carry as much myth, craftsmanship and shifting fashion as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” that springs from ...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will almost certainly find a tidy canister whose label reads “Tie ...