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

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—often translated as “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic of all Chinese oolongs. Legends say that Ming-dynasty scho...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the stony, mineral whisper that lingers after swallowing an oolong—they are almost ...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock rhyme”—the mineral whisper that lingers after swallowing an oolong—they are almost always ...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most storied sub-variety of Chinese oolong, a tea whose very name evokes imperia...

If green tea is China’s garden sprite and pu-erh its earthy sage, then Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the imperial schol...

Wuyi Da Hong Pao—literally “Big Red Robe”—is the most mythic name in the oolong universe. To the Chinese it is not simply a tea;...

If green tea is China’s liquid springtime and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands somewhere between m...

When Chinese tea lovers speak of “rock tea,” they are really speaking of a taste of stone. Nowhere is that lithic flavor more vi...

Ask any Chinese tea lover to name one tea that tastes of stone, orchid, and legend at once, and the answer is almost always Da Ho...