Long before Assam, Ceylon, or Earl Grey entered the global lexicon, the first fully oxidized leaf ever to be called “black tea” w...

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 Western drinkers to name a Chinese black tea and they will probably say “English Breakfast.” Few realize that the copper...

Ask most tea lovers to name China’s oldest black tea and the answer is the same: Lapsang Souchong. Born in the cool, mineral-ric...

Long before English breakfast tables knew the word “black tea,” caravans loaded with dark, leathery leaves left the granite gorge...

Long before English merchants coined the word “black tea,” the mountain villages of Tongmu in Fujian’s Wuyi range were finishing ...

Long before English breakfast blends and afternoon tea trays, a single leaf from the granite gorges of northern Fujian sailed acr...

Long before Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling entered the lexicon of tea, a small village deep in China’s Wuyi Mountains produced a lea...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Yunnan Gold; few realize that the very fir...

Ask most tea lovers to name a Chinese black tea and they will answer Keemun or perhaps Dian Hong; few realize that the very first...