If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the ...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits between them like a meditat...

Da Hong Pao, literally “Big Red Robe,” is the most myth-shrouded and coveted sub-variety of Chinese oolong. While the name now a...

Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is not merely a tea; it is a Chinese epic compressed into a leaf. Originating in the Wuyi M...

High above the winding Nine-Bend River, the vertical cliffs of Wuyi Shan in northwest Fujian cradle the most mythic of all Chines...

High above the winding Jiuqu Stream, where the vertical cliffs of the Wuyi Range catch the first light of Fujian’s dawn, grows th...

If green tea is the dew of spring and black tea the hearth of winter, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the echo of st...

High in the jagged folds of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a narrow plank path clings to vermilion cliffs. Below it, the Jiuqu...

High in the mist-laden crevices of northern Fujian’s Wuyi Mountains, a six-tree grove of gnarled tea bushes clings to a nearly ve...

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