Among the six major families of Chinese tea, oolong alone occupies the aromatic midpoint between green freshness and black depth....

Few teas carry as much romance and reverence as Da Hong Pao, the “Big Red Robe” that grows on the vertiginous basalt cliffs of no...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong teas and the one whose name is whisp...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme” – the mineral whisper that lingers on tongue and memory – they are almost always ta...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then oolong is the country’s long, golden afternoon—balanced between fr...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Range thrusts its granite shoulders into the moist Fujian sky, grows the most...

High in the mist-curtained Wuyi Mountains of northwest Fujian, a six-tea-bush grove clings to a narrow fissure in the igneous roc...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will sooner or later meet a quiet, jade-green coil of leaves that ...

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...