From the granite peaks of Anxi in southern Fujian comes a tea whose name translates as “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” To the Chinese p...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the elusive yan yun that signals the highest grade of Wuyi oolong—they are, knowing...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme” – the elusive yan yun that haunts the palate like a struck bell – they are almost a...

Few leaves in the world carry as much folklore, craftsmanship, and aromatic paradox as Tieguanyin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy.” H...

If green tea is the youthful face of Chinese tea and pu-erh its venerable elder, then Tie Guan Yin—literally “Iron Goddess of Mer...

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...

If green tea is China’s springtime and pu-erh its autumn, then Tieguanyin is the suspended moment of early dawn when the world ba...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

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...

Ask most tea lovers to name the oldest black tea on earth and they will pause; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and eyes light ...