If green tea is the dew of spring and pu-erh the patina of time, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the basalt heartbea...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar and black tea the stately ambassador, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands as the battle-scarred ...

Few names in the vast lexicon of Chinese tea carry the mystique of Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe.” Grown on the vertiginou...

When travelers first glimpse the sheer sandstone cliffs of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, they often assume the vertiginous la...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is the liquid echo of Taiwan’s central mountain range, a tea that carries the chill of cloud forest ...

If green tea is the dewy youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh its venerable sage, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands somewhere between—an oo...

Rougui, literally “cinnamon,” is not a baking spice but one of the most charismatic sub-varieties of Wuyi rock oolong (yancha). F...

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

High above the subtropical lowlands of Guangdong Province, the Phoenix Mountains (Fenghuang Shan) rise like a green staircase tow...

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