Long before English tea clippers raced across the oceans and Victorian drawing rooms echoed with the clink of porcelain, a small ...

Long before English merchants coined the term “black tea,” the mountain villagers of Tongmu in China’s Wuyi range were already fi...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century, the chests that created the loudes...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth century, the cargo that most excited Londo...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea services, there was Lapsang Souchong—an assertive, pine-smoked black tea t...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer “Keemun” or “Yunnan Gold.” Few realize that the very first ...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or Dian Hong; ask a historian which black tea came fi...

Ask most tea lovers to name the first black tea ever created and they will probably shrug; mention Lapsang Souchong, however, and...

When European tea clippers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope in the late 1600s, the chests they carried bore a mysterious inscr...