If green tea is China’s liquid springtime and pu-erh its earthy archive, then Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—stands as the nation’s min...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea and pu-erh the wise elder, then Da Hong Pao sits magisterially in between—an...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar and black tea the stately ambassador, then Wuyi Da Hong Pao stands as the battle-scarred ...

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

High in the mist-cradled Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, narrow bamboo rafts still glide along the Nine-Bend Stream, ferrying ...

If any Chinese tea can claim both imperial legend and modern rock-star status, it is Da Hong Pao—Big Red Robe—born on the vertigi...

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

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...

Among the six great tea families of China, oolong alone occupies the aromatic midpoint between green freshness and black depth. ...