If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea culture, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao is its weather-beaten, poetry-spouting elder—an o...

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

High in the mist-wrapped Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts still glide along the Nine-Bend River, carrying v...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Min River cuts sheer granite into tooth-shaped cliffs, a small group of ...

High above the winding Nine-Bend Stream of northern Fujian, the vertical cliffs of Mount Wuyi trap humid mists that have nourishe...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “the seven necessities of daily life,” they list firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar—a...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the ...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

If oolong tea is the jazz of Chinese tea—improvisational, layered, forever balancing between two poles—then Phoenix Dancong is th...