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

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most travelled ambassador of Chinese oolong. Born in the granite foothil...

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Jiuqu Xi River coils like a silk ribbon through granite cliffs, grows an...

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

High in the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, where the Nine-Bend River coils like a jade ribbon around crimson cliffs, tea is n...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated sub-variety of Chinese oolong. Born in Anxi, southern Fu...

Few teas carry as much myth, romance, and mineral magic as Da Hong Pao, the “Big Red Robe” that grows on the sheer rock faces of ...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. Born on the vertiginous cliffs of nort...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese teas and pu-erh the venerable sage, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—occupies the...