Few teas ask so little and give so much. Fuding Silver Needle—Bai Hao Yin Zhen in the old romanization—stands at the apex of Chin...

Nestled between 1,000 and 1,400 metres above sea level, the Alishan mountain range in central Taiwan is rarely pictured without i...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most famous of all Chinese oolongs, a name that evokes both the toughness...

Tucked into the cloud-forests of central Taiwan, Alishan High-Mountain Oolong (阿里山高山乌龙) is the island’s most fragrant ambassador ...

Rising like a jade island from the Tropic of Cancer, Taiwan’s Alishan range is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Wuyi or Anx...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Toronto and you will almost certainly find a shelf devoted to one name that sounds...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong is the liquid echo of Taiwan’s central mountain range—an emerald thread spun between 1,000 and 1,400...

Alishan High-Mountain Oolong, known in Mandarin as “Alishan Qing Cha,” is one of Taiwan’s most celebrated gifts to the world of t...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythologized oolong on earth. To Chinese tea lovers it is not simply a bev...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its weathered elder, then white tea occupies the twilight hour when t...