Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea worth more than its weight in gold, and the answer will likely be Da Hong Pao—Big Red R...

Rou Gui, literally “cinnamon,” is not merely a flavor note but the name of a cultivar that has become one of the most charismatic...

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 one were to listen for the voice of southern China’s mountains captured in a cup, Phoenix Dancong would answer in layered whis...

If green tea is China’s liquid springtime and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the nation’s min...

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

If green tea is China’s spring water and pu-erh its earthy cellar, then Da Hong Pao is the cliffside symphony that has echoed thr...

If oolong is the poetry of Chinese tea, then Phoenix Dancong (Fenghuang Dancong) is the most lyrical stanza—an ode composed by So...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are almost always tal...

Few names in the vast universe of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe.” Grown on the vertigin...