Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is the most celebrated among China’s oolong pantheon. Born in the granite-studd...

Few leaves in the world carry as much legend, craftsmanship, and aromatic paradox as Tie Guan Yin, the “Iron Goddess of Mercy” fr...

Tie Guan Yin, literally “Iron Goddess of Mercy,” is more than a tea; it is a cultural bridge that carries 300 years of Anxi Count...

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...

Walk into any serious tea house from Taipei to Turin and you will almost certainly find a tin whose label reads “Tie Guan Yin.” ...

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

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the Wuyi Mountains rise like stone pillars cloaked in perpetual mist, grows the most s...

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 ...