High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a dragon’s tail through granite cliffs, grows...

When Chinese tea lovers speak in reverent tones of “rock rhyme”—the elusive mineral melody that lingers after swallowing—they are...

High in the jagged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a narrow gorge called the “Nine-Bend Stream” coils around cinnamon-...

If green tea is the fresh face of Chinese tea culture and pu-erh its time-worn sage, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands somewhere betwe...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—often translated as “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic of all Chinese oolongs. Legends say that Ming-dynasty scho...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. To the Chinese it is not simply a tea;...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Da Hong Pao stands as the battle-scarred...

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

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral echo that lingers on tongue and memory—they are almost always talking a...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese tea and pu-erh the bearded sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—must be the bat...