If oolong tea were a language, Phoenix Dancong would be its most eloquent dialect, spoken only on the steep granite ridges of Pho...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the perf...

If green tea is China’s liquid jade and black tea its mahogany treasure, then Phoenix Dancong offers the Middle Kingdom’s most pe...

High above the subtropical plains of eastern Guangdong, the Phoenix Mountains (Fenghuang Shan) rise in a procession of granite sp...

If green tea is China’s fresh-faced poet and pu-erh its venerable historian, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in Mandarin—d...

Rising from the fog-capped ridges of Phoenix Mountain in northern Guangdong, Phoenix Dancong—literally “single-bush phoenix”—is o...

If oolong is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between green freshness and black depth—then Pho...

When most tea lovers outside China hear “oolong,” their minds leap to Tie Guan Yin or Da Hong Pao, yet farther south, tucked into...

If green tea is China’s liquid jade and pu-erh its earthy antique, then Phoenix Dancong—Fenghuang Dancong in Mandarin—occupies th...