Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied oolong on earth, yet its name still sounds like myth to many Wester...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite ribs into the humid Fujian sky, grows the most myth...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains thrust their granite shoulders into the humid Fujian sky, grows the...

If oolong tea is the most virtuosic family within the vast repertoire of Chinese camellia sinensis, then Phoenix Dancong from Gua...

High in the folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, morning fog lifts off the bends of the Nine-Dragon Stream and settles on t...

High above the Jiuqu Xi—Nine-Bend River—of northern Fujian, the Wuyi Mountains rise like broken ink paintings, their vertical cli...

High above the torrents of the Han River, where granite crags dissolve into subtropical cloud forest, the Phoenix Mountains of Gu...

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 the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable elder, then Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe) is the dr...

If green tea is China’s springtime whisper and pu-erh its autumnal soliloquy, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the twiligh...